Twitter has launched a great looking new site, Twitter Stories, to show how people are using the service. One story, about @ChrisStrouth, chronicles how Twitter helped him connect with a kidney donor:
. . .He needed a transplant. Not knowing what else to do, he turned to Twitter and wrote:
"Sh*t, I need a kidney"
Within a few days, 19 people offered to find out if they might be a match...
The rest is over at Twitter Stories.