Make it So!

I see Twitter as something more valuable than 140 characters of "What are you doing?" I see it as a gateway to the personal/public thoughts of a society as a whole. A stream of information that ebbs and flows with the feelings and emotions of the individuals that make it. Mundane musings and new ideas spread out to anyone who is listening...

Did you know the recent massive earthquake in China hit Twitter 3 minutes before the US Geological Society reported?

The LA Fire Department updates emergencies constantly and used it during the 2007 wildfires.

A student was arrested in Egypt and was released due to his friends back home who contacted legal help.

Emergency notifications combined with the grapevine effect of tweets have the ability to spread information quickly to large numbers of people instantaneously. How can this be used better?

I want tweets about my hometown, about things that could affect me right now. Someone tell me how the traffic is on I-94 Northbound near the airport. What is going on Downtown right now that's entertaining? Some store on the East-Side is closing and they're having a massive sale? Some philanthropist just gave the city of Milwaukee $50 Million?

I want white noise flowing through my head of all the things that I could be missing, or doing, or seeing. Of things that affect me and things that don't. The ability to turn it off is there as well, and I can just as easily tune out. But if the possibility is there, why would you?

These are the things that excite me. Plug me in to the human network. I want the summation of everything that is going on right now at my fingertips and available to me in 140 characters or less. Total Social Consciousness. Make it so.