Ed Dale, a marketer with a training website called The Thirty Day Challenge, published a great mini-talk on the virtues of Twitter from a marketing perspective. Two great observations come out of this: There are many ways to interact with Twitter, and Twitter is side-by-side communication.
Emergency 2.0
Bloomington has a growing awareness of how Web 2.0 can be used to create community, promote business, and share resources. With access to news still constrained by the timing of events, I think Twitter just showed it’s value as a catalyst for the spread of information … at least to those making use of the channel.