Debenham's assistants with 'Twitter' splashed all over their tee-shirts struck me as funny because it seems to me to be an action on Debenham's part to advertise their embracing of social media, rather than any effort to embrace it in a meaningful way.
Twitter is the new kid on the block thanks to its portability and the public way you can share your thoughts from any location. It's far easier to carry a mobile phone with you than a computer, and so it's easier for you to keep in touch with the world through the medium of electricity as you go about your work or play.
A tweet can carry geographic information, and so a real innovation that twitter can bring to our lives is real-time geographic based data arriving from all around the world that can be compiled into useful maps of information.
Two websites that use geographic real-time data processing to the max are:
http://uksnowmap.com/ an app searches Twitter for real-time snow reports and displays them on the map (see image above).
and…
http://trendsmap.com/ showing a real time 'tag-cloud' of the most popular phrases being twitted in real-time.
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