One thing that struck me about twitter is that the mainstream media pushed it (e.g. Oprah). That never happened with Google. I got the sense that the mainstrea

One thing that struck me about twitter is that the mainstream media pushed it (e.g. Oprah). That never happened with Google. I got the sense that the mainstream media felt that they could work with Twitter, and so of course they promoted it like crazy. This article suggests one reason why that might be: it's not a competitor to media, but more like the word of mouth that mainstream media is accustomed to handling. Whereas Google solved a problem (of endless masses of information of unknown relevance) that had never existed before. It solved a geek problem, not a mainstream problem.