How is twitter affecting communication today?

My research question listed above is very interesting to me. It interests me because I can't image life without twitter facebook and texting. My parents grew up fine without any of those things and now life for every person my age revolves around them. This topic does not relate to my disipline, because I really cannot think of a math topic that I am interested at the moment. There should be lots of accurate information to answer my question. This topic is easy to collect data from, all I have to do is log into my twitter account and take notes about trends and stuff. I feel like a lot of people aren't using my topic, but they should because it is very interesting.