Update: Mashable's shiny new Twitter account is here. If you subscribe, I promise to post regular updates about my cat.

So blogging has evolved once more, and the talk of the town - or at least the talk of Austin, Texas during the SXSW Conference - is Twitter, that increasingly popular text messaging/blogging service from the makers of Odeo. It's so popular, in fact, that Twitter has suffered some downtime over the last hour or so.

To some, it really feels like Twitter has stumbled upon a new blogging paradigm - short, to-the-point messages that let your friends, family and the world know exactly where you are and what you're doing, every second of the day.

But others are asking: what's the point? Those people just don't get it. Clearly, Twitter is an amazing new way to blog about your cat.

Mashable composite, images via iStockphoto, chihhang and logo courtesy of Twitter