One area where I think Twitter is really useful is in posting short updates to a website. I'm currently in the early stages of a project for a local charity that does a lot of work in fairly remote locations around the world.
I suppose mobile network coverage might be the killer to this idea but how great would it be for someone on a project in Africa to post short updates, sent via text message to their website.
I'm thinking along the lines of "We've just installed an irrigation water tower at an orphanage in Kenya and the water is now flowing! (posted 15 minutes ago)". That to me is really powerful, not only from a geek point of view but if I was a visitor to the site I'd be really encouraged to donate knowing that work is actually happening right now.
The best thing is how easy this is to achieve it's just a matter of dropping the Twitter RSS feed into the site homepage and then styling it.
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