The Fluid Simplicity site is amassing a list of the companies who provide a Twitter feed. It is divided into media, events, publishing, movies, airlines/travel, Finance & banking, hotels/resorts, retailers, business/entrepreneurship, professional services, health care, industry analysts, editors and producers, executives, venture capital firms, SaaS, software, telecom/VoIP, education, music education, manufacturing, mining, energy related, non-profits, unions, government (UK), government (US), public transit, culture, CVB/DMOs (tourism), health & fitness, motivational speakers, artists, tech support, tech – business news, tech – platforms, tech B2B, tech – search, open source, mobile applications, social- blogs, social – networks, social – media % sharing, social – bookmarking, social portal, babies & parenting, service providers, clothing & apparel, consumer prodcuts, food/specialty products, brewing, shopping, political/human rights, politicians/elected officials (UK), politicians/elected officials (US), political parties, PACs, sports, live entertainment, Authors/Artists/Musicians/Etc.

The list is impressive and long and these are just the categories. Someone needs to clean up the taxonomy here as you can see much overlapping and way too many categories. More are added in the 119 comments so far. It does appear there is no end to Twitter growth, will it have more entries than the wikipedia? What are limits to growth? Thanks to Guy Brighton at Marktd for pointing out this site.

What would Borges say? The wikipedia researches drew on him for inspiration to their conclusions. I wonder if we are we creating a Tower of Babel Babel Babel or can real meaning be covered in 140 characters?

Here is a summary of Borges work, Library of Babel from the wikipedia:

“…his universe consists of an endless expanse of interlocking hexagonal rooms, each of which contains the bare necessities for human survival—and four walls of bookshelves. Though the order and content of the books is random and apparently completely meaningless, the inhabitants believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just a few basic characters (letters, spaces and punctuation marks). Though the majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books. The narrator notes that the library must contain all useful information, including predictions of the future, biographies of any person, and translations of every book in all languages. Conversely, for any given text some language could be devised that would make it readable with any of an infinite number of different contents. Despite — indeed, because of — this glut of information, all books are totally useless to the reader, leaving the librarians in a state of suicidal despair. However, Borges speculates on the existence of the “Crimson Hexagon”, containing a book that contains the log of all the other books; the librarian who reads it is akin to God.”

I leave you to draw your own conclusions.