Imagine going to your website and finding that it was down. Not just your website, but your business’ website.
What do you do? The hosting company’s website is actually down too. What’s going on? Is it your computer? Your Internet connection? Are other people’s sites down?
Tell me what other service compiles information in real time like this? 
People like to mock Twitter as another fad. While I do see how its culutural explosion on the national scene is a bit of overkill, the fact remains its a cool tool for some and has value as a real time news aggregator.
