Before I went Christmas shopping yesterday, I didn't have a single present. I walked down the street going into every store, hoping and praying that when I went inside I would have a eureka moment. But I wasn't stressed out. In every shop there was a feeling of desperation as people grabbed every item in sight, hoping that it would work for their mom, dad, sister, brother, or someone on their list. I felt like we were all in it together, and now you can have the same feeling! Above is a feed of what everyone on Twitter is saying about last-minute Christmas shopping. It's fun to read what preparations are going down in these final days before the holiday. If you're on Twitter and include the phrase "last minute christmas shopping" in what you write, your tweets will be added, too. Because, you know, holidays are about togetherness, and we want to know whether you're feeling stressed because you can't find anything for your sister, or if you're elated because you got your dad last BlackBerry Storm in stock.

An NYU grad student has found a unique way to way to use Twitter. Corey Menscher, whose wife Ellen is eight months pregnant with the couple’s first baby, figured out a novel way to have Twitter notify him every time the baby kicks. For a class project, he invented a pregnancy belt he dubbed the Kickbee, made of a “stretchable band with embedded electronics and sensors” that “transmit small but detectable voltages when they are triggered by movement underneath.” The signals are then wirelessly transmitted to an accompanying Java application via Bluetooth.

Sure, a lot of people use Twitter like a Facebook-status on steroids, telling anyone who will listen what they’re eating for lunch and other mundanities. But some of the “tweets” getting put out into the world actually help us cook better, increase our intelligence, and entertain us while we’re waiting for the bus. After the jump, some of the Twitter feeds you should be following (in addition to those Tumblogs we told you about).

Whether or not you partake in Twitter, you have to admit it’s a little fascinating to read short snippets about how people are spending their days. Twistori.com compiles everything people twitter that includes the words “I love,” “I hate,” “I think,” I believe,” “I feel,” and “I wish,” letting you read a stream of random messages, including this insightful comment about sleep: “Sleep and I just aren’t close friends. I think we may be teetering on acquaintanceship. Maybe.” [Twistori]

If checking people’s Twitters has started to make you feel like a stalker, maybe you should take a few days off. The TwitterSnooze application arranges periods of respite from any particular person you’re following. Just enter your Twitter information, the person you want to snooze, and the amount of time you want to be free of their updates. An excellent tool if you obsess about your ex’s happenings. But, please, don’t hit the snooze button on us! [TwitterSnooze via LifeHacker]

Chace Crawford and Carrie Underwood were dating, until he realized he was gay (allegedly!!!) and dumped her via text message. How rude! Which got us thinking—have you ever been dumped or dumped someone via text message? Or have you maybe pulled some other shameless dating no-no using the power of SMS? If so, we’d love for you to head on over to our Twitter page, start following us (c’mon, it’s worth it!), and twitter us the dirty details of your nefarious text experience. Got that? [The Frisky on Twitter]

The Frisky just started tooling around on Twitter and a few of our staff have iPhones, which we kind of know how to use. But maybe we could learn a thing or two about putting these handy-dandy technologies to use in business by talking to one of our local streetwalkers. Apparently, the internet has become a useful tool for sex workers to spread their gospel, and, in the wake of the Eliot Spitzer scandal, also do a little public relations spinning. “Sex workers are sentient beings and we are very capable of speaking for ourselves,” Audacia Ray, sex worker advocate and author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration, told Wired magazine. “We are organizing politically and we do have opinions about the ways that sex work could be responded to differently by government and media.” When the Spitzer prostitution ring story broke, sex workers who are actively involved in the community wanted to have their voice hear on the issue, and used devices like the iPhone and programs like Twitter, Google Docs, and RSS feeds to be on top of hearing and responding to the breaking news. When did hookers become so…nerdy? [Wired]