Twitter can be used for real-time storytelling. This could be helpful for journalists or authors, who want to have an audience experience their work "live."
Perhaps play-by-play of sports events could be delivered this way. A high school student newspaper in New Jersey says they are already doing it, but I don't see any evidence of it on their Twitter feed. The Huffington Post promises live Twitter coverage of NFL games on sundays, but it seems more like a Tweeted sports talk show about the NFL, than actual information about what is happening right now in any given game.
I decided to try a couple of extremely simple examples of real-time stories, involving two Tweets each, ("BEFORE throwing out newspapers," "AFTER throwing out newspapers," "BEFORE getting a haircut," "AFTER getting a haircut.") showing what happens happens when you take out old newspapers, and when you get a haircut. Although they are not quite live, something does happen, and they are visual.
I have to admit that real time story telling is not unique to Twitter. Other social media have feeds, and even regular web sites have the ability to change or update over time... But Twitter makes it easily mobile through cell phones.
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