Google Buzz can it be an alternative for twitter

The website, who brought the revolution in short blogging , Twitter is now ready to face competition from Google Buzz. Yesterday google introduced a new service in the form add-on called Google buzz, which is a short message service like Twitter.

You can buzz your message from your gmail and can follow the others.
The main features in this service are friendly , simple and you can automatically follow the people you email and chat with the most in Gmail.You can share them publicly and as well as private.You can get the comments from others and you can comment on others.
One of the important feature of this service is you can Add thumbnails to your post, and you can also connect the google services like picasa, youtube, blogger.You can also import your stuff from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.
New posts and comments pop in as they happen. No refresh required.Buzz recommends interesting posts and weeds out ones you're likely to skip.