Posts Tagged ‘Tweet Congress’

I’ve had my Twitter account for about a month now and I am continually amazed at the diversity of uses for Twitter. Yes, there are those that keep us up to date with how far they’ve traveled on their way to the mailbox, but check out some of these uses:

Police, civilians Twitter together

Baltimore, Anne Arundel among departments communicating through social network tools

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/bal-md.ar.twitter04apr04,0,7171370.story

Pro athletes turning to blogs, social media

Brandon Marshall case highlights the trend

http://www.kdvr.com/sports/kdvr-sports-blogs-061709,0,7320348.story

Politics

Some members of Congress use Twitter to keep their constituents up to date. http://tweetcongress.org/ has a searchable list of who is using Twitter. Just this morning Representative Kurt Schrader (D-OR) tweeted “Kurt Schrader: is excited about new loan possibilities for small businesses. Find out more here: http://schrader.house.gov/“  

Twestival Local: Biggest Twitter Fundraising Event in History Returns

U.S. Reassures on Reliability of GPS Satellites

Businesses have all kinds of uses for Twitter. Applicant.com has a great chart: http://applicant.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tweetcurrency1.jpg