G'day mate. I must say that the Melbourne, Australia twitter users are a very, friendly, informative and helpful. We have been having regular meetups for the last 5 months now and we have gotten to know each other well. One interesting twitter event that I must mention is regarding a gun man who shot dead one guy and severely injured two others one morning in Melbourne's CBD. (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21923558-601,00.html) Even before the news broke on the mainstream media, other fellow twitterers were already reporting that their buildings were in lockdown. (http://twitter.com/andrewsayer/statuses/108910512) People were describing the latest police news , the possible direction in which he had bolted and other interesting thoughts. There were even tweets coming through about how a body was covered by a blanket, way before the news broke on the wire. It was informative and very interesting. Another common talking point among un Melbourne Twitterers is the delays on the train network. If one train line is stuffed, odds on someone in Melbourne Twittersphere knows the cause. Other events that have affected a large number of also gets a mention regularly among us. Last month's lunar eclipse was another event that was twittered live. People were informing each other of mid-totality and the like. And of course, we are mad about AFL (http://afl.com.au). This is Australian Football and at the moment, it is finals time. This is a big deal. It's like the Australian version of America's Superbowl. Anyway - we even have one user who tweets live updates about the games he attends. I'm pretty damn sure he hasn't got any rights to broadcast the match (they are really strict about that sort of stuff here - there's a free-to-air vs pay-tv battle at the moment.) Anyway, he is @ afl_live. Thats about it. Please feel free to contact for feed back. I'm considering writing one too. See ya mate! Andrew Sayer

this is about twitter's diffusion in the countries http://www.google.com/trends?q=twitter&ctab=0

*What was the most unexpected news issue you've recently found yourself Twittering about? Sorry my little english, OK? - There was a discussion about blogging, journalism & credibility in “O Estado de S. Paulo”, one of the major newspapper in Brazil. I cover, in my house remotely, the event using Twitter, silulating a soccer narrator. I got the soccer language to mirror the event climax and faults. It was funny and I think It was a good twitternalism. Brazilians love soccer and, almost always, the soocer is a good metaphor for us. *What is the most unexpected issue you heard via other people's Twitterings? - There are many news service addopting Twitter right now in Brazil... Like: Ultimo Segundo, Epoca Negócios e IDG. But They are copying the foreign use of the ribbon blog. But, we – Brazil – are launching ours ideas of twitter quality and virtuosity. Brazilians are ordinary people but with a extraordinary creativity. We’ll change the Twitter face soon.

http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2007/08/virtual-travel-agent-on-twitter.html

angeliqe i think twitter is really an innovation, people need to use imagination to find a new way to use twitter for example one of the twitter's founder talk about a new use of this instrument http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2007/08/virtual-travel-agent-on-twitter.html