Twitter represents an important step in the evolution of the real-time web, but what’s next? There are a lot of opportunities to create new real-time web innovations allowing you to manage, aggregate, engage in, and extract value from the real-time web. Such innovations can enable the adoption of the real-time web on a larger scale, allowing anyone to engage in real-time discussions, break news and create context around stories that are happening at any time. Twitter itself can play an important role in this future but I argue that they need to at least add capabilities to augment tweets with metadata enabling developers better opportunities to innovate on top of it.