iTunes Gets Twitter Accounts, Bing and Google Get Twitter Real-Time Search
Big news round Twitter-way, with Apple adding a few more official Twitter accounts, and Microsoft Bing and Google paying for unrestricted access to real-time search Twitter’s firehose of user status posts.
First up, while Apple’s never been accused of “getting” social media, and it may come as a surprise they’re using Twitter at all, it’s not so surprising that — rather than customer feedback, support, or insight into the iron curtain that shrouds Cupertino — these accounts are just news/marketing updates on when the latest music and media hits the world’s most popular download service. (And some seem less than active at the moment). Baby steps?
You can follow them via: iTunesTrailers, iTunesMusic, iTunesMovies, iTunesTV, and iTunesPodcasts.
Also both Microsoft’s Bing and Google have now announced partnerships with Twitter. Bing says:
Were you as fascinated by the 6-year-old boy floating away in a balloon as we were? Was it a hoax? We know that people are going to twitter more and more for information surrounding all the latest chatter. You can now search for what people are saying all over the web about breaking news topics, your favorite celebrity, hometown sports team, and anything else you use Twitter to stay on top of today.
Google says:
We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.
Does this hybrid search model appeal to you? Let us know!
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I just hope they’re better than search.twitter.com, which I find to be useless in general.
On an unrelated note, could TiPB and other blogs of the like find a volunteer to delete useless/irrelevant comments, such as those claiming the gold-prize of “First”? I consider such comments nothing more than spam, and I would gladly volunteer to help you get rid of them.
I smell a big-brother esque conspiracy theory- now not only will Twitter keep all of your posts stored on their servers, but google and bing will catalog them and make them searchable for anyone. Also plan to see a spike in twitter based marketing, followed quickly by a dramatic drop in Twitter traffic once it gets “played out”
Will the fact that all of this drivel ends up in google’s cache do anything to quell the utter banality of what transits the Twitter pipes?
The relative anonymity of being one twitter drop in the ocean disappears once search engines are brought to bare. The pointless babble will now be indexed, cataloged, cross matched, and no doubt held against you in a court of law or rear its ugly head at your next job interview.
The problem is the subject matter is largely idle chatter, and should have remained that way, like the idle comments between friends sitting around over a beer.
Now that its known someone hovering nearby is wearing a wire will everyone continue the flirtation, the gossip, the snark, and the narcissism?