DoJ Subpoena Proves Twitters Value and Its Weakness

The US government's move to order Twitter to disclose information about users involved with WikiLeaks confirms the network's status as a real-time information network, but also makes it obvious how much we have come to rely on it, and the implications of that dependence.

Source:
http://gigaom.com/2011/01/08/twitter-doj-wikileaks/