Twitter is not only has a measure of poetry, is like a village, but the people on it can also slam a company or a brand.

See the Comcast story Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch relays. See his conversations here and the tweetscan of Comcast here. Interestingly, Comcast monitors the online sphere and quickly responded.

Twitter as an early warning system for natural and man-made catastrophes is interesting. I am curious to what extent all the twitter clones and other online mobile social networks like MxIt in South Africa, for example, are used for these kind of consumer, advocacy, and social purposes. Personally, I like to know what happened to the chicken. And why there were so many goats today on Twitter. But that is another story.

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