This year, Twitter will add a whole new dimension to watching the Olympics.

I was reading the New York Times story on Sunday about how the Web is bringing fans so much closer to Olympic competitors — specifically, the ice skaters. It got me thinking about the impact Twitter will have on our collective following of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics as we watch from afar.

The running stream of tweets from the athletes, their families, the spectators and the fans across the world will surely bring us closer to the action than we’ve ever been before.

—Josh