Isn't this the EXACT thing that happened to Friendster? If someone had made the same prediction about them around this time, they would be absolutely correct.
"Twitter may be a destination for millions of people and a great place for self-indulged "Internet celebrities" to massage their egos as more and more people follow them"
Author and Internet celeb Don Reisinger has 1325 followers ...
I don't understand why every article cites that twitterers tweet 15 times a day on average. That is total BS, unless they are counting 1 tweet to 15 followers as 15 tweets. Maybe my sample is bad, but I would assert that Scoble and Arrington types are inflating that figure.