When twitter first came out , I tried to figure out how the novelty would not wear off. How could it have use. I thought about B2B and M2M uses for it - but fou

When twitter first came out , I tried to figure out how the novelty would not wear off. How could it have use. I thought about B2B and M2M uses for it - but found them limited. Recently, though, I have realized something about Twitter; it is like a sense, or an extension of a sense. While I am not a heavy user of the service, I see that it is invaluable in being able to provide, quickly and easily, an alert to millions about what is happening in places far and wide. The tweets serve to alert and attract attention - the attention can then driven to deeper dives of information, articles, videos, news etc... This alone makes it valuable - because it provides the simplest, most accessible method for anyone, anywhere to be able to drive massive amounts of human attention instantaneously. To be able to have created such a service is quite a feat. I don't think that "indoor plumbing" is the right analogy for what it is to the web, I'd almost more liken Twitter to the seratonin of the web.