Bing Search has Released Twitter Search

[morestar]

So now, if you're a Tweeter and if you want to search your tweets or your friends tweets apparently you can with Bing's new Twitter Search.

I tried searching my username (yes I have a rarely used Twitter account) and didn't get any results. I also searched some of the keywords related to my site and there were no results.

It seems to be thus far, that when you reach the main page at: Bing's Twitter Search page you'll find even before you search a list of 'hot topics' but other than that the search function didn't do much for me.

Maybe someone else can tell what I was doing wrong...

[Ace]

This is not available in India !!!

[morestar]

Really? What happens when you click the link???

[chrisJumbo]

I searched for a phrase in our niche and it returned some relevant results. About five were the newest and then some others that may follow some algorithm. So I went and tweeted something. It didn't come up. So I wonder what the delay time is. I search again in a few minutes.

[chrisJumbo]

So it took about 2-minutes for our tweet to show up. That is pretty cool.

But you would have to constantly tweet to keep yours on top. The next results I'm not sure how it decides to rank them, but we still come up on the first page.

So I guess the test will be tweet daily and see what happens.

I wonder how the referral shows up? Bing/Twitter or just Bing. I'll click our tweet and find out.

cd :O)

[chrisJumbo]

Also, for the phrase I typed, only 1 page of results. So how many people will try the twitter search over the normal search. And how quickly before the novelty wears off. And how quickly before it is filled with garbage.

Also, no ads were shown. Interesting. Maybe that will come if use improves.

cd :O)

[Update: A search for our twitter handle did not show up. Only the text of the tweet seems to be used. The singular form didn't show up in the recent but it did show up for the 1st page.]

[Update2: It appears to be some sort of exact match search. the url jumbocdinvestments was part of the tweet. jumbocdinvestment did not show any results. jumbocdinvestments did.]

[morestar]

Interesting. I just clicked the link to the twitter search that i posted and it said it's not available in my location either- Canada...it allowed me to click a link that said United States and that changed my location so I was able to now...

ya you're right it is an exact match search so far as the plural version of jumbocdinvestment did not work...

[FoundByDesign]

Personally, I think Bing missed it! It seems you have to click on the Twitter Search link at the bottom of their search page, and there you get nothing more than Twitter search, the same thing you can do at Twitter!

Read my post: Bing Misses Mark With Twitter for more.

[morestar]

Originally Posted by FoundByDesign

Personally, I think Bing missed it! It seems you have to click on the Twitter Search link at the bottom of their search page, and there you get nothing more than Twitter search, the same thing you can do at Twitter!

Read my post: Bing Misses Mark With Twitter for more.

Good day FBD, so as you say in your post "Bing should be integrating Twitter in the actual search results in some way." I must say at this point I totally disagree...

The sidebar idea 'might' be a good idea but what are we going to see? When I log onto twitter all i really see is advertising and promotions.

In my opinion that type of information shouldn't be considered relevant search results.

IMO.

But you are right in your post, that there really isn't anything that can be done at the Bing Tweet search that you can't do at Twitter...

What will Google provide that's different?

[FoundByDesign]

@morestar,
I have noticed that a great deal of Tweets are in deed shamless self-promoting ads. Not sure how much of those will be important for Bing or Google. As a matter of fact, I am not sure just how relevant any of Twitter tweets will be, as you can only use 140 character... more like extended link descriptions for the most part. But Twitter is "cool" with people right now, so the search engines are looking for a way to grab some of the audience.

[morestar]

...very true, twitter is right cool with the world right now...and probably will be for a very long time...

...but honestly, I logged into Twitter yesterday and I did see that quite a bit of the updates where promotions (like my tweets)... which tells me that if search is going to integrate tweets into the search results, they're going to have to be really crafty about it...I don't see (just yet) how they can be directly integrated into search resultswhile maintaining the current integrity of the search results...

Personally I really don't mind if there is any type of integration - I'm simply trying to figure how it will work - and how it will benefit searchers too.

[nickoran]

Originally Posted by morestar

...very true, twitter is right cool with the world right now...and probably will be for a very long time...

...but honestly, I logged into Twitter yesterday and I did see that quite a bit of the updates where promotions (like my tweets)... which tells me that if search is going to integrate tweets into the search results, they're going to have to be really crafty about it...I don't see (just yet) how they can be directly integrated into search resultswhile maintaining the current integrity of the search results...

Personally I really don't mind if there is any type of integration - I'm simply trying to figure how it will work - and how it will benefit searchers too.

I totally agree, i want to know how its going to work, I guess i just dont want my good quality search results watered down with junk, and what percentage of tweets are absolute junk, like people saying "i'm hungry" etc? (ok, easy to get rid of but might sneak into results) and the trending topics? - already spammed to hell on twitter!

[lacadlat]

Originally Posted by morestar

Really? What happens when you click the link???

Great info! Really informative. It is helpful for me.

[Bernd]

@lacadlat
Do you know for what questionmarks are?

Originally Posted by morestar

Really? What happens when you click the link???

I saw this:

Twitter beta
Hottest Topics on Twitter

Loading Twitter Trends
Sorry!

Bing Twitter Search is not available in this locale.

If you wish to access Bing Twitter Search, change your locale to United States.

Note: Changing your locale will affect all Bing pages. To change your locale in the future, click the United States link at the top right corner of any Bing page.

Above of this text is the search box. I typed in a KW. The answer was:

Twitter beta
Twitter search results are currently unavailable.
Try this

* Refresh the page.

Or, try this

* Click ALL RESULTS to search the Web, not only Twitter Search
* Click TWITTER to view the currently trending topics.
* Tell us what you're looking for. Send Feedback.