A lot of people might outright reject Twitter, based on the obvious tendency toward triviality in modern society, especially via social networking routes. However, this is not always the case.

Take Poetry_Daily, for instance. After all, we live in a world where so much other than the literarily written word dominates our reading. Through Twitter, however, following poems.com (Poetry Daily’s url) is simple. This site posts previously-published poems (from well-respected literary journals) for users to enjoy. Usually, these poems come from poets who have fancy degrees and have studied philosophy, classics, literature etc. So, for a little pleasure or wisdom every day, a follower of Poetry Daily can read a poem in his or her spare time. Of course, sometimes poems come up that aren’t necessarily the best. But, who cares? Sometimes a special kind of pleasure, whether aesthetic or not, comes from the recognition and criticism of bad things, right?

That’s just poems, obviously. Maybe you’re a sports fan. Maybe you prefer your midday soaps. Luckily, for just about every subject, there’s someone tweeting. Usually they’re not too hard to find.

FourSquare is an application that allows you to check-in from your phone to places that you visit and receive points from those places.  You can leave tips for other FourSquare users that visit the places you’ve been.  Foursqare’s blog published a Black Friday Survival Guide to help you organize your shopping day while saving money or donating to charity.

ShopKick offers you rewards by using its app while you shop.  Receive special discounts from participating stores and “kicks” for just walking into stores.  Redeem your kicks for rewards.  ShopKick’s recent email has promised that “This will be your best Black Friday ever!” by using their app.

So what’s better, the old fashioned Black Friday with newspaper ads, or the Black Friday of 2011 with the mobile apps?

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