Happy Belated Birthday Twitter!

So I meant to take the time to wish Twitter a Happy 4th Birthday a few days ago - I mean, the microblogging phenomenon has been there for me from square one (well, more like square two, as it took about a year for the social networking tool to really take off). And it seems I'm not the only one.

Mashable, the social media blog, asked readers to share what about Twitter they're thankful for - a Twitter Thanksgiving, if you will - using the hashtag #thankstwitter4. The responses ranged from finding love to stalking celebrities to "ruining my life by making me think in 140 characters."

One thing I'm thankful for? Allowing me to tweet relevant news stories to the likes of CBS 4 News' Misty Montano. Which is why I meant to give Twitter some generous props on it's 4th anniversary of conception - except I got caught up in what is, to date, my favorite Twitter escapade: the Tweeting of the Story of Exodus.

Apparently, a bunch of rabbis got together, decided to give the season of Passover a social media spin, and created a bunch of Twitter handles to represent the major players of Exodus - Egyptian Pharaoh, Moses and the 10 Plagues all included - to tweet the story of Pesach as if from real time.

Just a glimpse: "TweetTheExodus via @citizensofegypt: Our skin is boiling; turn up the AC! Oh no, that's not helping ... If only Pharaoh provided universal health care..."

To follow the story of the freeing of the Israelites via everyone's favorite 4-year-old social media outlet, check out http://twitter.com/TweetTheExodus/characters