From rumors around wine to their estimated $1 billion price tag we find ourselves blogging about Twitter quite often and for good reason. The idea of accessing data in real time has been an elusive goal in the world of search and Twitter offers that avenue. The ability for search engines to produce ‘real time’ search results becomes more and more difficult as the size of the internet grows in terms of pages, websites and users. Search needs to find a way to keep up – or should I say ‘needed’? There’s been many posts written around the idea “whomever can leverage Twitter will win the search war”. Personally, I would never go as far as to say that, but Bing announced today they now have access to the entire public Twitter feed and have a beta of Bing Twitter search for you to play with. Here is an example of the Twitter search results for “yankees”: 
I’m not going to lie. I’ve been playing around with the search tool and it is pretty impressive.
- If someone has a lot of followers, his/her Tweet may get ranked higher.
- If a tweet is exactly the same as other Tweets, it will get ranked lower.
- Most importantly, you won’t see any of your tweets if you protected or deleted them
- Tweets don’t last more than 7 days in the Bing Twitter Search index.
What are your thoughts have you tried the tool? Is this a good move by the folks over at Twitter? Follow us on Twitter @emarketing_news
