Agreed. This is the sort of stuff that Twitter is great for and I suspect that someone smart will find a way to use it as the vehicle for citizen news reporting

Agreed. This is the sort of stuff that Twitter is great for and I suspect that someone smart will find a way to use it as the vehicle for citizen news reporting. But it's niche, like a lot of folks are saying and even then, the kinks would be plentiful and I'm not sure that it'd be particularly useful during "dead times" and it'd be hard to sift through what's important except in bigger places or centered around certain niches. The technology itself is useful, just a question of whether it's something someone would pay for and I'd say no in most cases.