Telegraphs and Chats Twitter May Have Uses.

I'm not the biggest fan of twitter and I know I think it's about as useful and not as cool as the telegraph. I've also said I'm interested in learning about it. I came across a post about the uses of twitter
Here are the important parts of it.
If you place a # before a twitter search or a tweet it makes it easier to search. Here's the explanation from the post.

"'For instance, if I were interested in everything about the television show Glee, I could go to search.twitter.com and search for #glee. That search would return every post that includes #glee in the tweet. The hashtag helps eliminate superfluous posts, like I get a sense of glee every time I see a baseball score in which the Yankees lose. That tweet has nothing to do about the TV show."

While searching twitter may not be prove that useful chats might. Apparently you can use twitter to chat in real time with like minded people. Here's one that looks interesting, provided my fiction muse ever returns.
#fridayflash is a flash fiction critique group. Write a piece of flash fiction on your blog, then post a link with the #fridayflash hashtag any time Friday.

Or this one:
#writechat, each Sunday from 3-6 pm (ET), with a different topic each week related to general writing.

I'm beginning to think that there maybe be some real uses for twitter after all. I know not everyone fancies themselves a writer. If that's you you might try #yourinterestschat to search twitter. I have a feeling that in the age of narcissism you can find a twitter group for everyone.