Twitter Stories
Sometimes its hard to fish through your news feed for truly inspiring Twitter stories. Twitter has sparked revolutions in the Middle East, exposed injustice, and recruited followers across our nation to protests such as Occupy Wall Street. Now we have a landing page for some of these and other inspiring Tweets and the stories behind them, Twitter Stories. Twitter stories are inspired from tweets from 100-150 characters long and they truly define the magnitude of the service that Twitter offers. Although Twitter is a place for marketing, gossip, and talking with friends, Twitter Stories gives the company a bleeding heart and a humanistic layer. On no other social platform can one post about needing a kidney and truly find a donor, except for Twitter.
Here are 4 Twitter stories and I encourage you to indulge in the rest.
Twitter Stories | The First Tweet From Space
“From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!”
http://stories.twitter.com/en/1/mike_massimino.html
This tweet featured on Twitter Stories was in fact the first Tweet from space. Mike Massimino, astronaut, shared his otherworldly experience from the stars with this historical tweet.
Twitter Stories | Sh*t I Need A Kidney
These are the words verbatim from Chris Strouth upon learning that he needed a kidney transplant. Chris was battling kidney disease for three years when he was finally told by his doctor that he would need a kidney.
This is one of those Twitter stories that truly shows the power of social media. Within just a few days, 19 people offered to see if they were a match for Chris!
One of the people who replied was an acquaintance named Scott Pakudaitis, who hadn’t seen Chris in years.
After seeing the Tweet, Scott researched the procedure, talked to people who had been through it before, then decided to get tested to see if he would be a match.
When the match came back positive, he decided to donate his kidney. After the procedure, he sent a get-well-soon message to back to Strouth—on Twitter.
Twitter Stories | Hey Lance Armstrong, I Dare You!
@lancearmstrong I’ll donate $10,000 to the LAF you can ride up Waipio Road on a road bike without stopping. Anyone else want to donate?
http://stories.twitter.com/en/1/mark_slavonia.html
Mark Slavonia, an avid biker, made an attempt to bike up the world’s steepest road, the Waipio Valley Road in Hawaii. Well, he didn’t make it. So he thought, hmmm, I wonder if Lance Armstrong could do this? Well he took to Twitter with the tweet above and you know what? Lance climbed the hill about a year later and he agreed that it was quite a feat!
Twitter Stories | Finding Refuge In Tunisia
Translation: Spread the word! I must escape! There are armed men in our yard at 72 Avenue 3 Aout!
http://stories.twitter.com/en/1/bullet_skan.html
This man was able to find a place to seek shelter during the Tunisian revolution! This has to be one of the most amazing Twitter stories, yet there are probably thousands more in nations like Egypt, Syria, and Lybia, just like it! This is the truly inspiring power of Twitter!
Twitter Stories | We Love Our Industry
While we here at BlackBoxSocialMedia help businesses with social media marketing, we never take working in the social media industry for granted. As technology evolves at an unpredictably rapid rate our world becomes so interconnected, and these Twitter stories allow us to step away from our role as marketers for just a minute and soak in the truly revolutionary power of social media.
Image attribution: http://stories.twitter.com/en/1/chris_strouth.html