The women in this room and watching in L.A.

The L.A. Times actually turned to Twitter to dispense information as well, and put a Twitter feed on the front page, and the L.A. Fire Department and Red Cross used it to dispense news and updates as well.

Among the other interesting things that have cropped up are many things from businesses, from marketing and communications and predictable things, to an insanely popular Korean barbecue taco truck that drives around L.A. and Twitters where it stops, causing a line to form around the block.