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Do you twitter?

Twitter is described by Wikipedia as:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp.

What do I like about twitter and twittering?

1. It’s my daily log – you know my where I answer the “Hey what’s up?” questions
2. It’s real time – There’s very little lag. I see what’s going on with my friends and followers throughout the day
3. It’s my outboard brain – I twitter for the same reason I blog. The act of articulating a thought makes it more likely that I will remember it even if I don’t ever refer it to again
4. It’s my lazyweb – I’ve been able to ask questions—and get very targeted answers —sometimes within minutes of my original twitter

1. Simple information delivered through many channels – I can get updates via the web, instant message, SMT/texting. As long as I have a phone or am at a computer, I can twitter.

Ultimately, it’s akin to water cooler chatting—sometimes inane, sometimes venting, but other times incredibly useful and serendipitous.

How can nonprofits or communities use twitter? (That’s the bigger question.)

• Holly Ross over NTEN has some thoughts
• Dave Winer gives his definition of What Twitter Is?
• Could Donor’s Choose connected teachers and donors through twitter streams
• Could Twitter be the robust emergency alert system we keep asking for after tragedies such as the Tsunami because it routes through web, IM, and SMS?

• Can Twitter be used in a e-learning as a backchannel for in-person and virtual convenings?

Besides, Stephen Colbert twitters. And isn’t that why the Internets was created?

You can follow my twitter stream you don’t mind the blend of the personal, professional and everything else that’s on my brain at the time.

What else is twitter good for?