That said, if someone wrote up a website that compiled data from Twitter and displayed the trends by country/state, they could make a ton of money. A sort of informal news/”how does the country feel” site.

Unfortunately Twitter doesn’t offer any kind of geotagging of tweets, but some services are starting to come up with ways to offer that (such as Twinkle for the iPhone).

There are a lot of services that offer the “what are you doing” feature. Facebook is one of them, almost all messenger clients do, MySpace does, and many more. Some people, such as myself, don’t want all of the “features” these social networks have, and therefore turn to services like Twitter. That way our tweets can be seen by everyone, even people who aren’t signed up for an account.

Twitter definitely won’t be dying anytime soon. And not all of the chatter is mindless… if you follow the right people you can often be the first to get notified of big news events. For example, there is the Twitter account for Mars Phoenix news:
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It will be interesting to follow the Olympics in the blogosphere, but I’m really excited about the Silverlight streaming of the events online. I can’t wait to see how that plays out.

Journalism is at its best in amateur blogger’s hands no matter what software they use. I’m eager to read about the Olympics in China though informal blogs than through NBC, ABC, Fox News and so forth.

Because some people don’t like/use Facebook? Even if millions of people are on a social network, there will people who aren’t. Maybe they just want to be able to tweet from where ever they want (I believe Ryan wrote about tweeting from your browsers address bar last week)

Can anyone explain this to me?

Also, is there any way to just post your tweet once and have it show up on facebook and twitter?

That said, if someone wrote up a website that compiled data from Twitter and displayed the trends by country/state, they could make a ton of money. A sort of informal news/”how does the country feel” site.