Twitter, as a phenomenon, is really exploding, in all dimensions. They count their users in the millions now (our actual guess: well over 5M), there are many hundreds of applications tapping in on their API, and the whole world is talking and writing about them.

One of the most interesting things going on right now is that Twitter and companies living on the Twitter API are  absorbing or replacing more and more other forms of web usage. Instead of using an RSS reader, for instance, tweeps now follow blogs and all kinds of other - also more traditional - media on Twitter, getting their clickable headlines the moment they are published.

By following the right line-up of local twitterers you can also use Twitter as your tv guide, or as a tv review aggregate, or even as a live layer of dialogues regarding programs that are actually broadcasted. In the same way you can compile your own line-up of tweeps who have an interesting music taste (e.g. go to Twisten, where you can immediately get the audio streams of music tracks that have been subject of a recent message on Twitter!), or who share the same interest in any other category of news, science or culture.

Talking about interesting things..., the one thing that all industry watchers are talking and speculating about is Twitter's lack of a business model. Looking at the free, and therefore extremely dynamic, ways in which Twitter is still evolving, we at Result very much respect and admire their patience, still postponing any choice from a myriad of possible revenue streams still waiting to be exploited.