Love it or hate it, Twitter does not appear to be just a passing fad as some suggest. You may find such nano-blogging tools to be annoying vehicles for unsolicited TMI, overly mundane ramblings, or instances reminiscent of grade-school crushes and "cyber-stalking." But how you view / receive / ignore your tweets is left up to you. You'd be surprised how much you can say in 140 words. But once you start receiving Twitter on your mobile phone, it can be quite addictive.

In April, the LA Daily News quietly launched a Twitter stream with the update: "FBI searching for Magoo Bandit in Ventura County bank robberies." But at the time of this posting only 6 people are following the Daily News' mobile/Web/IM-accessible Twitter, despite being promoted as the sole SMS/text news option on the dailynews.com/mobile page.

The Daily News uses rss2twitter to automate its Twitter updates, but suffers from lags of up to an hour in posting time according to Josh Kleinbaum, Los Angeles News Group's managing editor for Interactive. The Twitter-lag issue has riled up many Twitter users recently, leading some to abandon Twitter for competitor Jaiku.

Watch our interview with Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone at SXSW after the jump.

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photo of Twitterers twittering by Martin Kuipers via flickr.