New York Times: why Twitter will endure

The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing [...]
I vastly overestimated the importance of broadcasting on Twitter and after a while, I realized that I was not Moses and neither Twitter nor its users were wondering what I thought. Nearly a year in, I've come to understand that the real value of the service is listening to a wired collective voice.