Apparently the idea for Twitter came to Jack Dorsey from listening to a police scanner: http://www.cnet.com/news/jack-dorsey-on-his-childhood-inspiration-for-tw

Apparently the idea for Twitter came to Jack Dorsey from listening to a police scanner: http://www.cnet.com/news/jack-dorsey-on-his-childhood-inspiration-for-twitter/ http://www.cnet.com/news/jack-dorsey-on-his-childhood-inspir... It's very much a techno thing, reminiscent of a track like Space Manoeuvres' "Stage One". I'm not sure if it's ethical to do it with live emergency communications, though.