Bing announces search for Twitter feeds

2009 October 21
by Aaron Queen
Bing Twitter Search Beta

Bing Twitter Search Beta

Bing has just announced on their community search blog here that they now have real-time access to the entire public Twitter feed.

Here is an excerpt from their announcement:

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.

Now.. this all sounds great, except for the fact is at the time of writing this blog post, the link to their Twitter search (bing.com/twitter) is 404.

Update – Bing Twitter Search went live (from 404) about 15 minutes after this post was published!

I don’t see anything odd about this day being April Fool’s or anything, so I am assuming they are working on that page as I am writing this article (or that post got published sooner than it should have on Bing’s Search Blog).

Let me know what you think :)

3 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 January 19
    Josiah from Tumblr Themes permalink

    I have mixed feelings about twitter feeds on search engines like Bing and google. as a internet user i think it’s pretty neat to see what people are talking about as i search for that subject on google. On the other hand, i run lots of sites and i don’t like the idea of my sites being pushed down the page because of the twitter feeds.
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