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Power-Tweeting: 101 Everyday Uses for Twitter 

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Published 5/23/2009 

Author: Todd Mintz 

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The simple dictionary definition of "Twitter" is "microblogging/social networking platform that places a 140- character limit on each individual post/tweet." However, describing Twitter thusly would fail to encapsulate the power of this new omnipresent medium. Twitter can be viewed at as a "marketing tool, feedreader, tracking device, communication tool & news breaker" all rolled into one. Or, Twitter can be seen as a collective life stream of a community of which you are a member.

Twitter is hard to describe specifically because it is a social utility with more possible uses than a Swiss Army knife. Here are 101 examples of how Twitter members regularly use the service.

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