Whither Twitter?

The user community, founders, and investors of this ground-breaking microblogging site explain what it means to them and how it's shrinking the globe

Twitter has come a long way since its much hyped debut at the South By Southwest conference in 2007. But where does it go from here? BusinessWeek Senior Writer Stephen Baker put that question and others to the Twitter community itself. This BusinessWeek.com slide show chronicles the Twitter saga up to now and offers a glimpse of some of the answers yielded by Baker's experiment.