You can follow Polycount on Twitter, so it can definitely benefit artists. In fact, when our site goes down for a few days it'll be the only dose of PC you'll be able to find! www.twitter.com/polycount /shill
Yeah it makes for a really great personalized news feed, especially if you have a phone app or sms alerts. There is a couple local profiles I follow that posts all kinds of stuff happening in my city that I would have no idea otherwise.
Twitter is a great waste of time, in a good way. It's also as vapid, entertaining or informative as you make it, by "following" people that that are either vapid, entertaining or informative. There are many twitter clients, so you don't have to use the twitter site at all. I use Tweetdeck on my PC and iPod, but I'm sure…
I use it sort of like an rss feed reader. I follow some game studios, a few tech news sites, and some artists. If I see something of interest on there, such as a new story on a website like gamesindustry.biz I'll just click the link to see it through. I use a Google Chrome plugin called Metrist so usually I don't even go…