One thing that bugs me about the Twitter boom is that local blogs and even mainstream publications in Chicago now use Twitter to link out to stories they like rather than actually writing about them on their blogs or sites. As someone looking for backlinks and referrals from them, this stinks. The halflife of a tweet is about 10 minutes. The halflife of a blog post is about 5 months, plus it boosts your Google mojo.
Seems like all blogs have been writing about lately IS Twitter. What do they expect to happen?
I wonder how long it takes before people pick up that the tech doesn't really matter and it's all just one big trollosphere.