I wrote this week's feature about Twitter on Twitter, in 140-character chunks. It makes for a read that could be weird if you didn't know about the conceit:

On January 16, 2009, when US Airways Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson, Twitter was the first to know, and it knew the most for hours.

Faster than they told YouTube, people told Twitter what was happening.

In breaking news, eyewitness reports are almost always more valuable and interesting than a journalist's accounts.

Watching New Yorkers tell their stories on 9/11 was more compelling, more real, than anything else CNN could relay.

Most viewers would rather follow the bearded biker who shouts, "It came out of nowhere!" than return to the smiling, phony telejournalist.

It goes on from there. But one of the more unique (and also, for me, mildly embarrassing) things about this particular feature is that you can read the first draft of the essay as I wrote it, over at this Twitter feed. (As always with Twitter, you have to start from the very bottom and read up.) There weren't a whole lot of changes from first to final draft (although I had to make some time-sensitive and topic-relevant additions to the very end of the feed), but there are some. For instance, I blathered on in an extended and highly unnecessary beginning to the story that got cut and rearranged into the piece (I always have trouble with beginnings to long pieces and I almost always have to cut them out when I'm done writing.)

But if you want to see how I use Twitter on a daily basis, my regular Twitter feed is over here. And, of course, a bitter old man has hijackedThe Stranger's Twitter feed and has been holding it hostage for several months now. And now I will shut up about Twitter for at least two hours. You're welcome.