The best use I've found of the "real-time web" is for tracking live sporting events that I can't attend or stream over the Internet. For example, I play fantas

The best use I've found of the "real-time web" is for tracking live sporting events that I can't attend or stream over the Internet. For example, I play fantasy football and I noticed during Sunday afternoon that Kevin Smith (Lions' RB) suddenly stopped scoring me points. Did he get injured? I don't have cable & Google's "recent results" showed nothing... so I performed a Twitter search for his name and my worst fear was confirmed by dozens of Lions fans on Twitter: he was out with an injury. The result of my search wasn't desired, but the "real-time web" was the only place to get the info.