The Power of Twitter - a few examples

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Can Twitter make a significant difference in your life?

Possibly.

Here are some results of people like you an me. They all joined Twitter without expecting too much, I am sure.


---This fellow made a list of the most used Twitter clients
---Did you know that Twitter posts become a way to find important information?
---Guy Kawasaki (VIP Internet guru) says he uses only Twitter for social networking
---Southern California was hit by a significant quake in 2008. Twitter covered it first
---Janis Krums posted the first photo of U.S. Airways flight 1549 on Twitter from his iPhone
---A group of people raised $25,000 for a good cause in a few days with the help of Twitter.
---His site went down. A post to Twitter saved the day
---Twitter saved Neill's reputation
---The Twitter community got him a Macbook power supply in a hurry
---Read how Twitter has become an effective substitute for "word of mouth"
---Motrin (brand name) apologizes on Twitter
---Bert Decker snagged a live interview with Nancy Duarte
---monitor the most exciting presidental election
---a plane crash in Denver quickly known in the UK
---hey twitter, write a blog post for me wouldja? They did
---first such interaction between an IR and an investor
---Journalist Jason Kristufek tells how someone got a job in an hour
---first time that Twitter had ever been used to place a To-Go Order at a restaurant
---Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail from CNN (maybe the most famous tweet)

Those are just a few of thousands of eye opening adventures on Twitter.

Do you have any Twitter experiences to add?


Greg Cryns