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The New York Times on 13 April 2009 had an article about different ways Twitter is being used:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14twitter.html
They note how it is picking up steam in the corporate world for allowing companies to quickly keep in touch with their customer base. But some other surprising uses have appeared, such as real-time monitoring of when a fetus kicks Mom's tummy, or for surgeons communicating with residents during brain surgery. Yikes!
The remote sensor-based tweets a la Kickbee seems like an area with some useful potential. The article talks about the automatic production of tweets, but there could also be automatic processing of tweets at the receiving end too. The message size would limit the amount of semantic markup you might want to use to automate processing of the incoming tweets, but I guess it could be compressed prior to sending. It would also be possible to send a long message that spans multiple tweets, or just allow for larger message size.
Twitter continues to create lots of buzz:
* Actor Ashton Kutcher beats CNN in a race to be the first twitterer with 1M followers (4/16/09):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Kutcher#Twitter_presence
http://derekshowerman.com/2009/04/17/one-question-for-ashton-kutcher/
Swine flu creates controversy on Twitter (4/27/09):
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/27/swine.flu.twitter/index.html
More on swine flu:
Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/28/000200
Here's some useful info about swine flu:
http://hub.teamhuman.org/tribes/tribe/news/wiki/SwineFlu/
This is a wiki article in a brand new tribe called 'News', created for just this sort of breaking news.
