Lots of things have been said about Twitter here and there — the best social network ever; — it will change the way TV is done; — you cannot live without it. Most of it is a lie.
Twitter is only a network of information and in its deepest sense it can't change anything. Thats up to the people.
Maybe is one of the largest public networks of information, but not the largest one. During more than two centuries people has found ways to make announcements to a wide audience: classifieds. In the Internet age, Craiglist does it well, at the cheapest price: free. But now Twitter does it free and really fast.
Nothing new.
The analytics team of Twitter has an amazing number: 13 billion nodes. Thats a large amount of information, but not even close to what cellular phone carriers are used to. The only difference here is that Twitter stream of information is public.
