Microsoft Announces Twitter And Facebook Integration Into Bing
Bertrand Vasquez | Oct 21, 2009 | Comments 0
There has been a lot of talk about a deal between Twitter and Microsoft. This morning it was reported that Microsoft would in fact announce to the world that a deal to integrate real-time status updates into Bing has been reached not only with Twitter, but Facebook as well.
Qi Lu, President of Microsoft’s Online Services Group, has made official the integration of Twitter and Facebook into Bing. However, the Twitter integration has gone live first today, and you can access it at Bing.com/Twitter. Facebook will follow later.
Now anyone can search Bing for status updates from Twitter in real-time. All Tweets can be searched by how recent they are and relevancy. Microsoft will also make use of short links from Twitter that are relevant to your search. The links will be expanded before displaying them.
Check out some screenshots below:
This was a great move from Microsoft. It looks like Google, who was also negotiating a deal with Twitter, has been beaten to the punch.
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