The purpose of Twitter -or one of the most important- is to establish a direct and effective communication with our contacts. In 140 characters, we must be able to express what we are thinking about or comment the information we are sharing using link.

But behind many of the more than 250 million messages are posted each day through Twitter there are fascinating human stories that often go unnoticed among the maelstrom of information of the most popular microblogging network. To recover some, Twitter has launched Twitter stories, a page that aims to remind “the humanity behind the tweets.”

You can submit your story by mentioning @twitterstories or by using the hashtag #twitterstories.

Some of the stories presented:

Saved a bookstore with a Tweet

An athlete who took a hundred of his followers out to a crab dinner

Japanese fishermen who use Twitter to sell their catch before returning to shore

Link: Twitter stories

Via: Introducing Twitter Stories – Twitter blog