June192009
Twitter: Not Just For People Anymore »
The whole world is a-Twitter! (Use of tired pun? Check.) Kogi taco trucks in L.A. will tweet their location. The River Thames tweets its water levels to city engineers. “According to Gartner Research, the data being tweeted by sensor-equipped objects in the world will soon become so huge that by 2012, physical sensor data will account for some 20 percent of all non-video Net traffic.”
This is the type of thing Twitter critics need to hear. I have to paraphrase this TIME article and say that Twitter might not be around forever, but the capabilities that it has introduced, and the incredible things it has made possible- those are here to stay.
