Bing confirms testing Twitter results in search results listings
Bing is testing a partnership with Twitter to show tweets in their search results listing pages, similar to how Google displays them.
Barry Schwartz on May 9, 2016 at 3:47 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
A Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed with Search Engine Land that they are indeed testing displaying tweets, Twitter results, in the Bing search results pages. This was first reported this morning by Ruben Gomez during his testing.
Bing is using a carousel box, similar to how Google shows tweets in their search results, to include these tweets in the Bing search listing page.
Here is a picture from Ruben:
This is what it looks without the Twitter results:
A Microsoft spokesperson told us, “We’re constantly updating and refining the Bing search experience. We’ll share more information when available.”
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.