Just read an interesting article in the Sunday NY Times (which is a new part of my sunday routine, to get me spending a little less time reading stuff on the computer), and I thought the Txtmob application used while protesting the Republican national convention sounded like it was being used a lot like twitter.

Its interesting to see that a group of non-web2.0 people understand its practical applications and apply it to a real world situation (in 2004). Twitter style communication gets really interesting if it can make the leap to the rest of the world, not just the web20 crowd.

Don’t think its a ground breaking thought, but it was new to me, and worth a look. Here’s a handful of people that have already discussed the idea:

http://www.tacticaltech.org/oaqneorganizetools
http://crashtheconventions.com/2008/03/19/using-twitter-to-organize-protests/
http://www.associatedknowledge.com/2007/08/28/evidence-that-text-messaging-has-reached-a-tipping-point/
http://blogs.asaecenter.org/Acronym/2007/04/cybermobbing_just_got_easier.html