There have been a lot of “end of the year” reports about whether or not publishing is dead, blogging going south (forever), and how with the advent of Twitter and other micro-blogging services that “everyone is now a publisher.”
I would argue that this is untrue, especially in the sense that people are publishing things that they generally created themselves.
What is more true is that everyone is a transmitter of data and information and this is seen best in the Retweet feature of Twitter. But no one would say that someone who simply retweets a link is an actual “publisher” of content, would they?