" to be becoming more and more important as a way to communicate," added Hyers. "Twitter is a technology that's really well adapted to our sound-bite world. With any breaking news, news junkies need a constant flow of information. I'm less and less surprised to see people Twittering about just about anything."

Caroline Dangson, an analyst at IDC, said she's interested to watch the comments flying around sites like Twitter and see what effect they might ultimately have.

"Twitter allows us to measure the good and negative comments about the news that IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems even before the companies release an official statement," she added. "Could public opinion sway the outcome? That's what I am interested to see."