I am new to Twitter so I am still learning to tell my RTs from my @replies, DMs and hashtags – or is that #tags? Anyway, I think there might be some combination of all these Twitter elements that might enable it to support the implementation of a tool that I have long wished was available. Basically I want to be able to request a notification of the occurrence of some future event. E.g:

#TweetMeWhen: #android G1 enables app installs on SD Card; or

#TweetMeWhen: #CSI Season X is out on DVD

I would then want other people who are also interested in knowing this to be able to ‘follow’ the event somehow – note I use the term ‘follow’ loosely here to mean track. I would also want, along with all other followers of the event to receive a tweet when someone reports the event as happened.

I suppose everyone interested in an event could just favourite it and periodically monitor @replies to it but that does not really do the job. Any of you Twitter veterans out there have a better idea about how to achieve this without building a dedicated application for it?