This story comes recommended to us from two sources: Shel Israel and Sarah Evans @PRsarahevans. 

Stacey Monk started Tweetsgiving to demonstrate the power of Twitter and social web. Within 48 hours, she raised over $10,000 from 336 contributors. The money helped fund a new classroom for a school in Tanzania. 

In this video Shel Israel tells us why Stacey Monk's Tweetsgiving is one of his favourite stories from his new book, Twitterville. 

This story came to @twittamentary in a series of Tweets. Elwyn Jenkins @DrSomebody proposed an entry on Twitter Novelist Nick Belardes @nickbelardes who has been serializing "Small Places" (@smallplaces)  and "Bumble Square" (@bumblesquare) on Twitter. 

林凱洛，Carol Lin 是臺灣的美女博客作者，也是臺灣推友圈的重要召集人，她發起組織的Punch Party,胖趴奇，透過單靠在推特發信息，每次都能召集百多人，打造了臺灣網絡圈的新活動平台。

Punch Party 的形式獨特，每個講員將用20張簡報，每張簡報僅有20秒，也就是每人只有6分40 秒的上台時間，一位講員最長以7分鐘為限，超時的話就會被轟下台!

最近，臺灣中南部發生八八水災，@thecarol運用她在推特上的影響力，號召臺灣推友投入賑災的工作，充分展現了微型博客在危機時刻的特殊功能。

Even as we write ( or rather even as we 'tweet'), Annette Baesel @abaesel is on her way to Bali, Indonesia  with her husband.  What makes the trip to this exotic tropical paradise is the fact that she is going to meet @bali_chris, her long distance birdwatching partner via Twitter.

We don't know about you but we have never heard about long distance bird watching before.  How does it work?  Let us hear it from Annette's own tweets:

Overheard on Twitter: Can you write a play in 140 characters? Well, Callie Kimball certainly can. In fact she writes 1 Twitter play a week for the New York Neo-Futurists@nyneofuturists.