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It’s okay. You can say it.

“I told you so.”

Okay, now that that’s out of your system, let’s get down to brass tacks. I adopted Twitter about three weeks ago. It quickly became my favorite addiction. However, after using it for only a short time, I’ve come to realize its real-world value and usefulness outside of engorging myself on absurd amounts of web content.

After Chad Wright used it to contact me about helping him with a project that used the power of the Twitter mob, I started looking into other ways that Twitter could be used for business, life, and ministry. And, holy cow, I’ve come up with some great little ideas.

For example, I just finished the first stage of a project for another client over at SwellSignal.com. After completing the designing, putting some finishing touches to the coding and functionality, I called him and had a chat about what Twitter is and how it could make SwellSignal even more fun and useful. Needless to say, it was an exciting chat.

Next, I talked with our pastor’s wife who organizes the prayer ministry for our church. She’s been looking for a way to have interactive, chat-like prayer on our church’s website without dropping money of custom coding or using a third-party app that just looks awkward. Twitter’s feature-set might work in that area, too.

Then, as I was trying to write another blog post here this morning, I tweeted that I was having a tough time with it. In no time, I got several replies in Twitter telling me that Twitter is the cause of my blogger’s-block because it’s killing blogs. My guess is that all the good ideas are simply posted to Twitter instead of blogged. That makes sense to me.

Yesterday, Clayton Bell introduced me to HashTags.org, a nifty little tool that makes Twitter act more like a forum or wiki. As soon as he explained it, I realized the power of what that little tool can do.

Wait, I just had an idea that I’m going to run with. Look for it in a couple days.

Do you have any ideas about what Twitter could do with a little ingenuity?