Twitter as a sysadmin tool?

Reminds me of a good point made here: http://plpatterns.com/post/169380277/sending-an-im-via-gtalk...

  If you think of your software as your co-worker — someone 
  you work with who helps you do your job — all kinds of 
  functionality just make sense. Would you rather your 
  co-worker emailed you or IMed you? Then the software 
  should do that.

There's a bit of a 'highest common denominator' effect in play here. From the little detail on the reasoning, I'm guessing his phone sucks as email client, but is good with text messages, so twitter is being used as a high-level interface to text messages, as well as anything else that will use Twitter.

I call it 'highest common denominator' as he could setup the system to send text messages directly to him, but then he'd lose all the other features like logging w/ timestamping, and, uh, being able to friend other twittersyslog system accounts. Since Twitter is the system to plug into, I call it highest; the common part is there exist numerous tools to take things out of Twitter to a format he's comfortable with. In this case, text messaging happens to be built in.