, as a journalist i found twitter has replaced what was once the essential tool in the trade, the ap newswire. beck in the old days reporters would check the wire to find out what was happening close by, the united states, across the world, checking every few minutes, particularly assignment editors in major newspapers would be checking the wire to find out what they needed. now you don't need that. twitter gives you that and twitter give that to everybody, not just journalists. if you or somebody who is nervous about tweeting feeling is not quite for you but wants to find out what is going on you can follow cnn's twitter feed, fox's twitter feed, you can follow andrea mitchell if you want, you can follow sean and eddie if you want. there are a whole lot more people popping up in who don't work for the major news organizations but they are also putting out information turns that into an early-warning system for many of the professional journalists out there. a couple people said because twitter, because people are everywhere and because there was a statistic that was released a few in weeks a