I love Twitter, but it's no excuse for poor writing skills. If anything it's more of a challenge to skillfully pick just the right words in under 140 characters.

I'm in the same boat. I love language so much that text speak pains me (when used seriously, of course). I'm all for utility with certain abbreviations, but much like good cheese, you just can't substitute some things. A friend of mine calls me a left-brained word fetishist whenever I pick on one of our guildmates who is 14 and has pretty poor grammar and vocabulary skills. I do it out of love, I swear!