I don't use Twitter, I think it's a useless fad. But for real-time news, it's hard to argue that it isn't better than Google. It's not perfect, but looking at

I don't use Twitter, I think it's a useless fad. But for real-time news, it's hard to argue that it isn't better than Google. It's not perfect, but looking at the trending hashtags tells you something Google can't.