:) I don't have a text plan on my phone, either. Back when I made that decision, it was a pretty expensive option and I couldn't see me pressing tiny buttons repetitively to send text messages.

These days, my brother has unlimited talk+text on a plan that's cheaper than the limited minutes /no text plan I'm currently locked into. I will, eventually, get a new plan and one assumes a new phone. For now, though, I just want something that essentially does for Twitter what Thunderbird does for my e-mail: it gives me a small pop-up notice when I get a new message. Any technology that requires me to open a service regularly is going to fail for me. I have Google Reader and I don't think I've looked at it since...November? I haven't looked at Facebook since...a couple of months ago? I have many outlets in which to be absent. :)