I use Twitter as a news service, its all about in-the-minute, you check in every now and then, look back a couple of pages then move on.
search.twitter.com is great for market research on your brand or category…
Have to agree Mitch, the uptake of Twitter is absolutely tiny… once you’re in it it seems big and busy.
Traffic has tripled (according to Hitwise http://www.hitwise.com/news/au200809.html) to 0.015%… although of overall internet traffic its like a drop in the ocean.
Based on this blog (http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-state-of-twitosphere-in-australia.html), that would mean total users is up to around 9,000… 0.4% of Australia’s population…
All considered, its a great by the minute news service for me 