I actually follow a decent amount of journalists, and they comment a lot on things in a sort of "preview" of what I'll see in tomorrow's paper. For example, wit

I actually follow a decent amount of journalists, and they comment a lot on things in a sort of "preview" of what I'll see in tomorrow's paper. For example, with the Iran negotiations, there was a lot of chatter about people entering the building, making comments, etc. It's not the news, but it's like a high-level form of gossip, and pretty real-time. Plus it's nice to be able to ask a person a question (there's a pretty high response rate when asking a writer something on twitter). Interesting side-note though : 160 chars in japanese ends up being pretty big content-wise, which is probably why a lot of japanese users don't mind using it as their main social network account.