skibum - 5:56 pm on Jul 25, 2009 (gmt 0)

Like search engines or any media vehicle in the early days, it just takes a while for things to sort out. With Twitter it's easy to ignore the spam since you only see stuff if you choose to follow. Why pay any attention to your followers aka, MLM :) ) You'll never see stuff you have no interest in unless you choose to.

It is great for all the things @ronin mentioned. Like anything else, it will be (and is) a good business vehicle for those that put in the time and figure out how to use it. Whatever Twitter publishes for businesses will be used with great success by some and will be used by many others that don't really have anything to offer but dreams of quick cash.

If you started the search game in the early days by building real sites offering real value focused on connecting people with what they were looking for, chances are you're doing pretty well today. Twitter can compliment that well.

Time will tell how well Twitter can monetize.