Google’s Seattle site director Brian Bershad told TechFlash.com, "There’s relatively little data in Twitter," Bershad said. "I think if you could take a Twitter-like service and combine it with a lot of other data sources about the users, you might be able to come up with something more interesting."
Twitter: A Real Time Pulse Of Customer Satisfaction
Sydney, Australia-based web developer Michael Air recounts how his “light bulb” moment about real time search came as he was looking for a new hosting company. Instead of looking on Google, he consulted Twitter about a specific brand. “Ten pages in and 99 percent of comments were saying how bad that hosting company was,” he told Murdok.
Twitter, then, becomes a kind of collective representation of the consumer mind and the current consumer mood.
What the Most Popular Brands on Twitter Are Doing Right
Digital brand management agency Electric Artists is tracking the most popular brands, celebrities, media outfits, and television networks based on category, handle, latest tweet, and number of followers. They also include short notes about how each is using Twitter.
The brand category is host to a pretty diverse group. The top ten based on number of followers consists of:
1. Zappos
2. Whole Foods
3. Jetblue
4. Starbucks
5. NBA
6. MTV
7. Southwest
8. Comcast
The Twitter Ecosystem Explored
In some business circles, Twitter’s an accepted part of the scenery by now; people have figured the service out and are using it to accomplish impressive things. Not everyone’s taken to Twitter like a duck to water, though, and so at PubCon South, a few of the folks who are further along led a session on the Twitter landscape.
Law, Order, Facebook, And Twitter
Not too long ago, the most important things discussed on Facebook and Twitter related to people’s relationships and what was for lunch. Then we moved into job-loss and non-fatal-plane-crash territory. Now, a couple of stories with links to the criminal justice system have cropped up.
Google Feels Lucky with Twitter
Google has decided to start a Twitter account. It’s attached to a random Googler and holds the bio "News and updates from Google."
The first tweet came sometime around 7pm EST last night, and Google already has nearly 12,000 followers. It is following 37. Among those being followed by Google? A bunch of Googlers, and Google product accounts. Danny Sullivan, and John Battelle are also in the mix. And of course Biz Stone and Evan Williams.
Twitter Homepage Search Could Test Google
Update: Mark Carey has created a script using Greasemonkey that allows users to put Twitter Search Results directly in Google Results. He shares the following screenshot:
Fusing The Concepts Of Search And Twitter
With all of the sniping that has gone on recently between Google and that annoying little pest that keeps landing on its shoulder called Twitter wouldn’t it be nice to learn how to get value from one or the other?
Twitter Meets Parasite Hosting
Google’s seemingly automatic trust of popular social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia make all of them—and by default, you, the end game—a target of spammers, scammers, and hackers. Combine that trust with Twittter’s foray into realtime search, and you’ve got yourself some spammer’s delight.
Facebook’s New Twitter-Like Elements Highlight Real-Time Search Need
As previously reported, Facebook is set to launch changes to its news feeds that will give it more Twitter-like functionality. The changes are set to launch next week, and will update feeds in real-time.
In addition to that, the status box is becoming a publisher box. Rather than only allowing users to update their status, it will now allow you to post content – links, photos, videos, etc that will go to the news feed stream in real-time.