Twitter will begin crawling and indexing content linked from Tweets, not just the tweets themselves anymore.
Look out, Google - Twitter's got your number. The change to Twitter's search feature is huge, and it all boils down to analytical data, and the immense value that such information carries with it. Twitter's ability to track realtime trends already puts Google's to shame - and taking that ability off the twitter.com domain means that the microblogging platform is poised to become the internet's premiere Web 2.0 content index. Even the brief delay of a few hours in Google's search engine results represents eons in the hyperspeed context of the modern internet. Twitter can fill in that gap, and Jayaram provided us with some juicy details about how they're going to be doing that.
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I've recently become addicted to twitter, but I think that popurls still has the edge (and will probably continue to have the edge) over twitter in tracking "what the web is looking at" in real time.
Popurls is an aggregator of web aggregators (del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Metafilter, etc.) and all of the memes that appear on twitter usually appear at popurls first...
http://popurls.com
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