Twitter the new Google?..

...Not yet,
but in a recent survey, I read that Twitter is now the fastest growing search engine, and serves 800 million search queries per day. That's 24 billion searches a month! Social networks are increasingly popular for where news is broken, sometimes running hours ahead of news organisations. Because of this, many news organisations now have Twitter accounts.
So many people see the idea of journalism moving online as a negative change. It doesn't mean journalism is dying, if anything, there is much more chance for journalists to get their articles out there. So many more blogs are being created day by day. There is now 600 million users on Facebook, making it easier for people to spread news and share links, similar to Twitter. The terms 'Follow' and 'RT' makes it so much easier for people to stay loyal to whoever you are getting your news from. Twitter offers something that search engines can't... human interaction. In fact, Twitter receives millions in funding and has previously turned down a $500 million offer from Facebook, because of it's planned business model of Q&A features and search ads. Facebook have even been adding Twitter-like features to try and keep up.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, went as far to call Twitter, the “poor man's email system”, but I believe Twitter has what it takes to get there. Social Media should not be seen as something negative! It isn't replacing ordinary journalism, but just creating an extra layer of journalism for the public to get information from. Twitter is not like any other social network.
Time will tell, normally something new and better comes along for everyone to jump on the bandwagon, but I believe, Twitter will not become the new Myspace, well shall I say old...