1. Personal notepad. 
2. Coral reef. 
3. Publishing platform. 
4. River of news. 
I'm sure there are others, and as I think of them I'll add to the list. 
But one thing I never thought of Twitter as was Poor Man's Email, which is how Google CEO Eric Schmidt described it to analysts yesterday. 
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