Earlier this month there was reports around a potential deal between Microsoft and micro blogging service Twitter. Now Microsoft has announced at the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 in San Francisco that the company has struck an agreement with both Twitter and Facebook social networks and the data of both services would be included in search engine results of Bing. Previously in the results of Bing certain updates from Twitter was shown but this was limited data access only. Now, Microsoft has full access to realtime data from Twitter.
If you want to give it a try, a demo is available on “http://bing.com/twitter”
Once you open the demo you see a tagcloud placed directly with the hottest topics at this time. Once you start looking for a topical subject, the most recent tweets shown beneath top links, links that are placed in the most tweets with the search. Among recent tweets a link “See more Tweets about …” to include more messages.
On this page you see tweets in real time with a top button to pause the stream. For each tweet is a retweet button that you can use to post on your Twitter page directly from Bing. On the top you can choose on which the tweets should be ranked, the choice here are “Most recent” (default) and “Best match”.
However, more details about Facebook would follow in a later stage. So Stay tuned!
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