Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Microsoft Starts Indexing Tweets

Microsoft's new search engine, Bing.com, will begin indexing Twitter messages ("tweets") from well known technology notables and celebrities, the firm said today in a post from the Bing team. According to Microsoft, it would begin including Tweets from people like Danny Sullivan and Kara Swisher, as well as Al Gore, Ryan Seacrest, and others in its search results. The firm said it is not indexing all of Twitter, but is only indexing people based on follower count and volume of tweets.