Why not turn twitter into a massive brain for problem solving / brainstorming?
A task would be given to the twitter community along with a deadline.
The community would then collaborate to complete the task via standard twitter communication.
The task could be well-defined such as finding a strong move in a chess game or more open-ended such as inventing a new kind of robot.
As for the selection of the task, this could be done by the twitter community voting on proposed tasks.
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I'm sure that's already being done, your proposal would formalize it. Sort of an amazon mechanical turk (quite apt, given the example of a chess move) but with twitter users as the 'execution units'.
The fine-grained coverage would actually be a pretty good help as well. Maybe somehow couple it with location ? First to do 'x' will get 'y', tweet filtered by something that knows roughly who is where so you don't get overloaded with things you can't do ?
Imagine being able to type in a keyword say: chess and getting a twitter consensus or summary of the community's opinion on this topic.
Maybe something like this already lives? I know FBook already has something like this.
However, their groups/lists is a step in the right direction.
They have already solved the problem of user participation though.
I thought about a third party app for this, but their API limit would make it almost impossible IMHO.