Great points about defining Twitter, and what Twitter really means/signifies. I do think it’s important to define it (as I mentioned here: http://bit.ly/6AUVi) so that we can understand how it fits into our behavior, how we’re using it, and it can be used in the future.

While I agree with some of the commenters’ points, I think “to share a moment” works well here. Yes, you CAN go back to a tweet if you want, but the important thing is that the act of tweeting on the part of users is in fact an “in the moment” thing, regardless of what people search for in the “post moment.” In other words, the search portion of tweeting, for the most part, is after the fact and isn’t part of the tweeting process (that’s almost what makes it so valuable, because it’s almost entirely untainted data on what’s happening in the moment).

Cheers,
Kate

It would be really cool to see how the massive amount of date that flows through twitter could be used to further build out thisMoment.com (http://www.thismoment.com/) and be linked with something like FourSquare (http://foursquare.com/) to add greater dimension.

I reach the opinion that RT Information only makes sense if its filtered.

http://incomingit.com/blog/it_tech/does-really-the-real-time-social-information-search-make-sense

Just hope that Microsoft and Google understand this and got tools to stop the useless information overload on The Internet.

I think it flows from the journalist in you and, combined with your unique vantage point, gives us actual peeks at how things are materializing.

And I’ve gained confidence in it as you’ve talked about trends and services like Aardvark.

What I love about this post is that, as a reader, you can feel all of the ideas and energy from the Web 2 summit consolidating in you with the benefit of that spidey sense.

So, it has me thinking – reflecting, which is now a category of thought reserved only for what might be highly relevant – about the significance of Twitter’s deals, and, more importantly, the tweet as a shared moment imbued with meaning.

I always wondered why they didn’t get it. I suppose that I instantly ‘got it’ because I have friends who live far away from me. Facebook is an activity, something I can spend hours browsing, but Twitter is something I check periodically for 5 minutes at a time. My friends’ tweets are the kinds of things they’d say to me if we were together at the time. Nothing until Twitter has made it feel so easy to ‘share a moment’ with my best friend, who lives in another country.

What do you exactly mean by that?