Is Twitter better than Facebook?

Not better.. just different. 

Partially akin to a light-weight version of the Facebook Home page.. status updates/news/photos but with more emphasis on real-time. You'd expect it to be less personal because people don't need permission to start "following" you. But actually Twitter is being used as a very personal micro blog that's quite different to Facebook. 

Since I'm less interested in people who produce noise, I follow people who provide value to me in three ways:

1. delivery of unique insight: people's perception about a business, economic trend, industry, etc;
2. simple new-fashioned entertainment: make me laugh whilst I'm waiting for the train; and
   
3. tell me a story about people's lives: their daily habits, the way they think, their motivations are all the more interesting because they're real.

(Thanks for the question Kel... this is my answer).