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techcrunch.com - 7/1/2009

Twitter Grows “Uncomfortable” With The Use Of The Word Tweet In Applications (Updated)

— techcrunch.com — We were just forwarded an e-mail conversation between a Twitter API team member and a third-party developer because the latter was using a UI for its web-based service that was admittedly very similar to Twitter’s web application. The startup of ... (more) Twitter Grows “Uncomfortable” With The Use ...

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smallbiztrends.com - 7/2/2009

8 Ways To Find Relevant Followers On Twitter

— smallbiztrends.com — Twitter’s strength comes in its ability to connect you with other people and to start real conversations. It’s helped small business owners market to current customers, to engage new ones, and to create partnerships with new friends. But it can only ... (more) 8 Ways To Find Relevant Followers On Twitter

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blog.searchenginewatch.com - 7/3/2009

But Twitter is no Google

— blog.searchenginewatch.com — Twitter's real-time search capability has great appeal to anyone wanting to get the pulse of what people are actually tweeting about. Media entities are taking note; companies are using it to deliver fast customer service responses. But I'm still not ... (more) But Twitter is no Google

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Bing Starts Indexing Twitter Updates, Sort Of
Search Engine Journal — ... their full name as their Twitter username? Or how many users do their search on web search engine just to get these people’s latest Tweets? It would have been great if Bing (or the other search engines for that matter) will start indexing the Twitter stream and display Tweets along with the other web data that they crawl and display as search results. That’s more like a “real-time” search, right? Anyway, this could be a good start though. As the Bing community blog explained via a post: We’re not indexing all of Twitter at this time… ...

Bing Starts to Get Real (Time)
John Battelle's Searchblog — I've been complaining that nearly no search engines surface real time data (for now, that's Twitter, but Facebook is coming soon enough, and there will be tons more). In fact, I complained to Microsoft about this well before the launch of Bing, and then complained some more when Twitter results were not surfaced in initial beta versions of the service. Man, I'm grumpy lately, eh? Well, that's changing. Sort of. From a Bing blog post today: There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created ...

Bing Announces Twitter Integration, But Don’t Get Too Excited
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... In a move that appears to have more bark than bite, Bing has announced the integration of Twitter with its search results. Before you leap for joy, the announcement is a non-starter. ...

Bing Bringing Real Time Twitter Data Into Search Results
Search Engine Marketing Blog - KoMarketing Associates — Last night I read via Search Engine Land of Bing’s announcement that they are beginning to integrate real time data into search results. Starting with some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers (“a few thousand people to start, based primarily on their follower count and volume of tweets”), Bing users will be able to search names in association with Twitter to see their latest Tweets come up in real time. Example of Kara Swisher’s twitterstream in search results: While ...

Bing Adds Tweets Answers But How Real Time Is It?
Search Engine Roundtable — ... about Bing adding Twitter results for some "prominent and prolific Twitterers." It works by searching for name tweet/twitter or the @username. So for example, ...

Bing Integrates Twitter, Sometimes and If You're Important Enough
Search Engine Watch Blog — ... If you're a celebrity or some other figure Bing has deemed "prominent," then searches for your name plus the word Twitter will turn up a few of your Tweets above the organic results. You can also search for a person's screen name, preceded by the @ sign. ...

New features in FF and Twitter
Scripting News — ... BTW, talking about new features that should be sent back to the labs -- Microsoft announced that they are including results from selected Twitter users. The relevance criteria is follower count. Might have worked last year, before the ...

Red, White & Roundup
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog — ... 6) Real Time Twitter Search - In an attempt to better integrate real time data into their SERPs Bing made an initial attempt at Twitter search. What they rolled out is an interesting idea, but the implementation needs work. The Twitter results are limited to high profile Twitterers and the results are poor for non-exact match queries. Similarly, ...

Interview with Micorosft Bing’s Rajesh Srivastava, Principle Group Manager, Bing
Search Engine Journal — ... on Facebook in which people can share or tag a Bing homepage image they like. This type of voting and commenting helps us better understand what our users like to see.  So these are a few ways we’re using social media to engage our users.  We’re also working with twitter to incorporate searches for tweets into Bing. See our recent blog post for more details. ...