Wow, how fast is Twitter moving into the main stream of our lives.  This morning on the news I hear about a child's transplant where the family was kept informed through out the surgery of the progress via Twitter!  The surgery involved a kidney transplant which is labor intensive and the family followed along in the waiting area via Twitter.   

My real surprise was when I googled "Twitter surgery" and came up with over 3000+ results!  It seems many hospitals have implemented this practice to keep families up to date.  Here is a link to the article about the surgery at the Children's Hospital in Texas.  Twitter in Surgery  

I think back to a surgery that my husband had last year and wish the hopsital Tweeted surgeries.  I was alone waiting for my husband for several hours and talk about nerve wracking!  Having updates via Twitter sure would have helped me remain calm.    

I think we are just beginning to see the use of Twitter.  If a hospital can Twitter a surgery, what can we do with it as agents, brokers, mortgage, inspectors...