Twitter doesn’t like to think of itself as a social media company like Faceook or LinkedIn but instead perceives itself as an information provider. In reality, it spans both sectors but risks falling in between unless it continues to evolve its own niche, something it’s attempting to do with an impending series of major changes. [...]

The consumer market is getting even more crowded as the big online giants try to expand their own footprints into new areas of the social networking landscape at a quickening pace.  Whether it’s social bookmarking, geotagging, following friends or looking for online music providers the distinctions between the services are becoming more blurred by the [...]