Is there anyway to receive Twitter updates from individual users on my cell phone?

You can do this through your iphone by sending a text message like ON username or Follow username to your Twitter code(40404 in USA). If you send the text message OFF from your phone ,you can turn all of them off. Please see the image below.

Another way of doing the same is explained below visually in the second and third photos below.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.