A Little Bird Just Told Us About a Yahoo! and Twitter Partnership
The little bird is right. Yahoo! is partnering with Twitter, making it possible to integrate real-time content into social experiences on Yahoo! Starting today, you’ll be able to see more fascinating and news-worthy tweets when you search on Yahoo!
Last year we integrated Twitter results in the Yahoo! News Shortcut and for other buzzing topics. With today’s partnership, we have access to the full public feed of Twitter content. We’ve built a real-time index of this feed so you can see what people are tweeting about the topics you’re looking for.
Go on, give it a test flight: Go to Yahoo! and search for “Obama Twitter” or “iPad” to check out how we’re working to help you stay in touch with the people and things you care about most – across the entire Web.
If you are as big a fan of curling as we are, here is an example of what you could see on Yahoo! Search:
Real-time search involves striking a balance between showing the very latest content and showing slightly older content that may be more interesting or authoritative. In the coming weeks, we will be experimenting along these lines and upgrading tons of stuff to provide better, quicker, and more relevant Twitter results on Yahoo! Search result pages.
You can learn more about this partnership in today’s Yodel Anecdotal post by Bryan Lamkin, Yahoo! SVP of Consumer Products Group, to get his take on how Yahoo! and Twitter have just made your Web world smaller, yet larger at the same time.
We want to know what you think! Drop us a tweet with your comments at @yahoosearch.
Ivan Davtchev, Shiv Ramamurthi, Saurabh Pathak
Yahoo! Search
thats interesting…
nw twitting becomes better it seems
i love this partnership
I think this will become more common in the near future as these software giants fight for market share. You’ll start seeing more of them team up.
This is great, although it looks a little buggy in Firefox (when you scroll over the “what is..” link.
Looks great – will it be available on non-US Yahoo websites too? Not working on Yahoo UK&Ireland search yet.
Great! Hot results :)
Twitt Twitt and make the buzz :)
it looks amazing, will be avalaible in Yahoo indonesia?
This is a great partnership! The integration of tweets! Sweet.
2 Giants with great features. Twitter has been very helpful with Business.
Great going Yahoo. I can’t see the tweets appearing in the Yahoo UK. When can i see this on Yahoo UK Search?
Real-time Search – brilliant! Often find alot of old news in Search Results, this new inclusion is definitely a great move.
That will shoot twitter through the clouds. Yahoo has one of the largest userbase, today!
Both of the giants combine to help lots of business. Happy to enjoy this.