With over 13K saves to my Delicious bookmarking account, it’s safe to say that I’m slightly ahead of average-Joe when it comes to technology news – although I don’t own an iPod or a gaming platform, and I hate text-messaging!

So it’s oddly funny to hear this dude predict that “normal people” will use twitter in five years – in his dreams maybe. Nothing will get me to text message every little nook and cranny of my life on a little handheld device all day.

Text Messages? Sounds expensive.

How much will Twitter cost me?

Twitter says they charge you nothing, but how much it costs to use Twitter with text messaging is another story – that depends on your text messaging plan. They just say, “Standard text messaging rates (such as international text messaging fees) do apply. Consult your service provider to ensure that your text plan covers your Twitter usage.” Geez, this guy must work for AT&T or something!

Well there you go, why would I want to run up my phone bill just for that, when I can do the same thing in a blog for free?

Of course, the advertisers love it, and that’s where the revenue stream will be coming from as usual, but that’s got nothing to do with me – especially since I don’t see ads anyway!

Now, if tomorrow’s technology mind-melds my thoughts to the ‘net via osmosis, then he may have something there, but until then, I’ve already wore out one set of fingers on Mattel’s Classic Football back in 7th grade and then Atari, so I’ll pass on text-messaging all day – Twitter or not.