What good is Twitter, anyway? Glad you asked! Here is a list of Web pages that discuss productive, interesting, innovative, lifechanging and/or otherwise cool uses for Twitter.

• Contests

2008

January 2008

• 01/23/08 Tweet Your Pain! Frequently, people get bad medical treatment because their doctors know so little about them. If you have intermittent pain, you should use Twitter frequently, and give your logs to your doctor.

• 01/22/08 Ad Hoc Quick Support This describes a case where a few well-placed tweets got noticed and drew free, accurate, and quick support from a couple of Oracle ACE Directors in the twitterverse.

• 01/21/08 Marketing Ideas for Online Grocery Delivery Service A collection of tweeted responses to questions from Connie Reece and others regarding this topic

2007

August 2007

• 08/24/07 Stories of how people are using twitter - mostly from edublogosphere, being added daily to the wiki

May 2007

• 05/03/2007 - Business use of Twitter by Maggie K. Fox
• 05/03/2007 - Business all aTwitter over Web tool's potential, by SHANE SCHICK, Special to The Globe and Mail
• 05/02/2007 - Virginia Tech, social media and emergencies, Blogged by: Mark H Jones

April 2007

March 2007

• 03/15/2007. 10 Reasons Why Twitter Will Help Improve Your Already Existing Social Networks, Luis Suarez
• 03/15/2007. 48 Hours in Twitterland by Kim M. Bayne. Pondering potential business applications

February 2007

• 02/09/2007. Twitter: Use it Productively by Lifehack.