I'll concede that it works well for at a glance news (even though facebook's trending sidebar does essentially the same thing), but I prefer using Reddit to follow along with sports because you can have a proper discussion, not just one liners. Also on Reddit you can choose to interact with either the entire community of people watching that game or just the fans of your team, which is nice if you want to avoid rage.

I just think Twitter is a fundamentally sub-par product that got way too popular due to celebrity use.