Twitter will become one of the most valuable tools in use today.

Although primarily a social networking tool, the uses in a business context are increasingly obvious to me.

For example imagine sending a status update automatically from a batch job to a Twitter feed.

The feed could be open to all or protected, but those who want to monitor progress need only to subscribe to that user and the need for email updates disappears.

All those release emails that are sent out to ever increasing mail groups are replaced by a subscription based service.

The large amount of emails that are generated by Grid Control and other monitoring tools can be set to tweet rather then email.

Although I must admit when I originally started using Twitter I followed various Subject Matter Experts on Oracle, but am now following entertaining celebraties too ;-)