Twitter Introduces Tool to Make Collecting and Sharing Tweets Easier - NYTimes.com

It took ~70 years, but perhaps Vannevar Bush's associative trails concept is finally going mainstream

"Twitter introduced a tool Tuesday, called custom timelines, that allows its users to drag and drop tweets to form custom lists of Twitter messages on whatever topic interests them.
The idea — to make it easy for anyone to create a “best of Twitter” list — could be especially appealing to news organizations and other heavy users of Twitter who constantly scan the service looking for interesting nuggets and then share them with their own followers and fans."

Twitter Introduces Tool to Make Collecting and Sharing Tweets Easier - NYTimes.com