Does Twitter break Shannon's Law?

Thought sparked by a post from Kathy Sierra

To recap, Shannon's law states that in a communication channel of limited capacity, useful information is transmitted at:

C = W log2(1 + S /N ),

where C is the channel capacity in bits per second, W is the bandwidth in hertz, and S /N is the signal-to-noise ratio.

So, cometh the Broadband 'Net, and C rises by an order of magnitude.

Surely Shannon's Law would predict a huge jump in the amount of useful information available. How then, does it explain the emergence of stuff like Twitter?

It's all in the S/N ratio - more C allows more S, and more W.

....but also more N.

Ergo, Twitter et al are the unintended consequences of the Broadband Revolution

But why stop at Twitter...why not a system where I can for eg have my 'phone log where I am, and every time I say anything, make a transaction (or take a pee or whatever) little RFID's in situ broadcast it to all my friends - saves me the trouble of actually writing anything.

Hey - maybe I should patent that

(In other words, as bandwidth goes up, cost of a comms transaction goes down, and the barriers to editing disappear. Self Published becomes User Generated becomes Stream of Consciousness becomes Torrents of cr*p - It may even be that the S/N ratio goes down, as the effort required to generate drivel is << than that necessary to generate intelligent thought)

As an aside, reading the blogs re twitter it seems that many people don't only read their friends on twitter but sub to A list blogslebs to get their every digestive accomplishment etc - so maybe its just Hello! magazine for geeks ?

Shannon would be turning in his grave........Orwell would just be smiling mischievously

Postscript...the Reverse Shannon's Law of Twitter as measured in Uncertain Cats

Postscript....even GigaOm is wittering on about twitter now!