One of the most important benefits is the previously mentioned ambient awareness of others, or the development of "digital intimacy." While Twitter is frequently characterized as a chattering stream of irrelevant pieces of information, these pieces of information, gossip, small talk, and trivia serve to create and maintain emotional connections between members of the networked audience. … Crawford argues that it is the "small details and daily events" that give "a sense of the rhythms and flows of another's life." Regardless of whether the details given are significant or even truthful, Twitter streams feel like listening to a voice.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 562