A link in the Twitter blog post by @Biz (December 29, 2009) connects the reader to his article "Why we can never rest: a year in the life of Twitter."
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry-sectors/technology/article6968440.ece
The article's closing lines are worth re-recording.
Many people have assumed that Twitter is just another social network, some kind of micro-blogging service, or both. It can be these things but primarily Twitter serves as a real-time information network powered by people around the world discovering what's happening and sharing the news. The Iranian election was the most discussed issue on Twitter in the final year of a decade defined by advancements in information access.
In the new year, Twitter will begin supporting a billion search queries a day. We will be delivering several billion tweets per hour to users around the world. These are figures we did not anticipate when we founded the company in 2007.
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