We've all been trying to understand the community of Twitter. I know a lot of people from the general community (not agencies) that are still not seeing the benefits of Twitter conversations. Businesses are talking about Twitter just because Twitter is a buzz word. Still, the problem of simple and clear understanding of the "Twitter beast" remains.
In August 2009 two companies, Sysomos and Pear Analytics, partnered to lead a study of Twitter audiences. Below is a great visualization of this study done by InformationIsBeautiful.net
We are not suggesting that this is THE solution to all "Twitter for Business" problems but it's a step in the right direction of understanding the role Twitter plays.

