Twitter: Your news this instance

Iran and China faced the same issue in the span of one month. Iranians poured out into the streets demonstrating against the legitimacy of the Presidential election. China's issue with its western frontier demonstrated once again the distorted viewed on communications.

Twitter was blamed to be the main cause. It used to be mobile phones and sms. But with Twitter, all we need is internet connection and we can post second-by-second live updates of what is going on around us. And the messages could potentially reach to everyone with internet connections.

And then the fateful wake-up call in Indonesia just a few days ago.

"Bom @ marriot and ritz Carlton kuningan jakarta," the 38-year-old digital media head posted from his Blackberry, shortly after the second bomb went off at the hotel he was staying at - the Ritz Carlton.

I lifted this from the CNA website and it was a news post by itself. The title is "Jakarta bombings first on twitter".

Twitter has indeed evolved from a mere fad to an important tool which will...and I say with conviction... will change the media landscape. Newspaper will die. Online news will be relegated to a second-base spot where people will turn to for commentaries, political opinions and interviews. News, and I mean instant news will be carried by Twitter or its descendants. We will have this application on our mobilephones (iphones for me) that will update me instantly on what is going on around the world.

"The Dollar has raisen!" "Flash flood!" "Banana costed more today."

Yes. Expect more changes to come in months to come.