I am pretty new to Twitter.  I don’t have my own account but tweet at least once a night from the CBS Atlanta station account.   I’m generally tweet about what’s happening while at work and what story I’m working on for the 11pm news.   I’ve covered a few stories about Twitter and it’s been pretty interesting to see how this new social media works.

In one story, an Atlanta City Councilman tweeted about a person who needed medical attention.  A local 911 center feared if people start using Twitter to ask friends to call 911 in an emergency, it could clog the lines and real people needing help might not get it.

And you may remember Ashton Kutcher and CNN competing to see who could be the first to get 1 million followers.  During the competition, Kutcher said he’d ding dong ditch Ted Turner if he won.   Kutcher got to a million first and a few weeks later he was in Atlanta filming a movie.  Kutcher sent out a tweet asking his Atlanta followers to meet him at the fountain at Centennial Olympic Park in an hour.   It was amazing.  Within 20 minutes, people started showing up at the fountain.  So did Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore.  They led people to a parking lot where they handed out 800 “ding dongs” to leave at the front of Ted’s Montana Grill.  People left their Hostess treat at the door and then rang a bell.  In the end Kutcher said that was a diversion and let banners drop with his Twitter name over the big CNN logo on the downtown CNN Center.http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video/19458454/?taf=lnta

 

What do you think about the power of Twitter?

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