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Twitter? What's Twitter?

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Kansas City, MO – The social networking site, Twitter, seems to just keep gaining in popularity. Even we're trying our hand at it @kccurrents.

And it's not just the media, all sorts of organizations are reporting about their work through the site. Just recently Children's Mercy Hospital tweeted a surgery, possibly the first in the nation.

But who has really joined the Twitter revolution supposedly sweeping the nation? KC Currents' Annie Walsh and Ashly Kissman took to the streets of Kansas City to find out.

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