Twitter in the morning

One of the first things I do in the morning is check Twitter on my iPhone. Why you ask? Because it's the one place where I can truly get all the important news in a flash. I get both the national news headlines, the international news headlines, but most important, the local news headlines and even the weather.

To give you an example, this morning when I woke up I read about the several sporting events that had taken place the night before.

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MHS Wrestling beat Sabetha, 51-21, and Falls City, 45-36

I also received an update that it is going to be foggy in St. Joe, and even though I won't be driving to St. Joe myself, I have other people in my life who have to on a daily basis who I can update with this information by retweeting. The beauty of the post below is that it includes one of Twitters most powerful features, you can include links to pictures. Sure, what is thick fog? But by clicking on the picture I can actually see how thick the fog is.

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RT @mikebracciano: Fog around St. Joseph thick fog to the south... http://yfrog.com/4anj4aj

And my third major news update came from St. Joe News. Apparently a couple slid of the road and there is an update on the situation. Thanks to Twitter I now don't have to keep checking the website every five minutes to see if there is an update.

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News Update: Couple taken to hospital after sliding off the road http://bit.ly/8QUXpG

Now, I know that there is other ways of getting information from the internet in an easy form, but to me Twitter is the first service that actually lets you do this in a fast and convenient way. Instead of checking multiple sites, or reading long RSS feeds, I know exactly what's going on in my area through 140 character updates.

If you are more curious about what Twitter is, check this Twitter guide book on Mashable.com:
http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/