Microsoft Signs Bing Deal with Twitter and Facebook

Microsoft has signed a deal to index Twitter and Facebook status updates for search. Apparently this deal is not exclusive so it may only be a matter of time before Google gets in on the action.

Shortly after we launched Bing, we did an experiment with the team at Twitter, where we took a fairly small number of “celebrities” from Twitter and provided access to their tweets as part of the search result. Here is a great example.

But what if we take that to the next level? What if we indexed basically the whole public Twitter stream and made it available to customers?

We’re glad you asked that. Because today at Web 2.0 we announced that working with those clever birds over at Twitter, we now have access to the entire public Twitter feed and have a beta of Bing Twitter search for you to play with (in the US, for now). Try it out. The Bing and Twitter teams want to know what you think.


Mashable notes that Bing will let you search tweets by recency and by relevancy. Information such as number of retweets, captions, quality of tweets and keywords will be used to sort relevant tweets. They have also learned that Bing plans to display relevant tweets to your search queries.

You can try out the Bing twitter search here. No word yet on the Facebook search.

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