Wow. This so precisely aligns with my thinking on the potential value of enterprise Twitter. What he's put into words about weak ties, querying the corporate "social network" for business intelligence, unstructured collaboration fora could all be done in the corporate Twitter space. The importance of 'converting a potential tie' and helping people stay on top of their networks of loose ties maps perfectly onto the Twitter "Village"/Fox Taming metaphor I've talked about before. - laura "@pistachio" fitton

Twitter could replace pagers in an enterprise IT corp setting. - Larry Huffman