Okay, I’ve been dying to try to come up with a clever, catchy Twitter-related blog headline. (How’d I do?)

Anyway, with the Twitter chatter out there among the Twittter haters and Twitter lovers, I’ve thinking about it myself of late.

Twitter is nothing more than another tool. If/How it gets used will determine if it out-lasts its current 15 minutes of fame (though it seems like its fame is pushing 20 minutes). So, I thought of how could Twitter be used for the good of all mankind. And, here’ what I came up with:

  • Internal use: For company-wide announements, why not Twitter them, rather than e-mail. Of course, these would be brief announcements (like the Outlook server will be down at noon for a five-minute reset). Though, with internal use, there’d be some licensing involved, which would allow the licensee to expand the dialogue box limit.
  • What about integrating a Twitter box into a Wiki-like page or even a service like WebEx when collaborating on a document (presentation, etc.), rather than using a telephone.
  • If you have all of your media contacts as friends or followers on Twitter, you can announce when news is posted to your online newsroom. But, isn’t that what an RSS feed would be for? That assumes you have all of your media contacts on Twitter.
  • Twitter could be used to broadcast a play-by-play of a game to those who don’t have access to a TV, radio and the game is not Webcasted.
  • Bascially, any need one would have to broadcast to an opt-in group a message (an announcement, direction, etc.).