Festival on Saturday said there 's not yet fully developed technology that would both give people all the real-time info they want and let people who put their information on the Internet select who sees it -- or even take it back . `` It 's kind of in our best interest , being selfish , if everyone was completely open with their data , '' said Scott Raymond , founder of Austin-based Gowalla , a location-based mobile app . `` From the user 's perspective , it 's kind of the opposite -- it 's probably better to just stay selfish with your own data but consume everyone else 's . `` There 's a whole lot of work that needs to be done on this and it has n't been solved yet . '' For example , if people on Twitter all set their feed to private , the popular trending-topics feature would n't work . Recently , Twitter , on which most users make their information open to everyone , hit a major milestone -- its 10 billionth tweet . Unfortunately , that tweet was by a user whose settings are private , so the curious will
Austin , Texas -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- An Internet that gives people the information they want virtually as soon as it 's created is getting closer , according to Internet professionals . But before real-time Web becomes a reality , developers say they need to figure out how to protect people 's privacy while blasting out as much information as they can , as fast as they can . `` A lot of this data that people would like to make available , they would n't necessarily want to make available to everyone , '' said Jack Moffitt , chief technical officer for Collecta , a search engine that aims to give real-time results . `` I think we 'll be wrestling with privacy issues around real-time data for a long time . '' The idea behind a real-time Web is to create technology that does n't require an Internet user to actively seek out something they 're interested in . That could mean anything from getting pinged when an article about your favorite sports team is posted to an alert when you 're mentioned in someone 's blog . Moffitt and others speaking at the South By Southwest Interactive