There has been a lot of chatter recently about a new site called Twitter. Basically what it does is to allow people to send short messages to the site that people can read. At first I was at a complete loss as to why we need such a technology. I mean, do I really need to know you’re currently watching The Daily Show? But after some thinking on this issue it hit me. This is the perfect tool in times of a natural disaster. In developing countries, cell phones are the mode of communication, where not many people have access to the internet. This would be a perfect way to upload short bits of information on what happening on the ground. This is something humanitarian organizations are always in dire need of - updates from the ground. This makes the people affected also the newsmakers. Imagine if the people caught in Hurricane Katrina had this kind of info, or the people affected by the tsunami. This could take user generated content to a whole new level