Google News Automatically Tweeting Stories @GoogleNews

Apr 29, 2009 at 9:18am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google News Blog announced they have joined Twitter to automatically post links to top stories on Twitter via @GoogleNews. Many news sites automatically post stories to Twitter as well, but Google News recently started to do this as well. I believe Google News also powers @News_By_Robots, but I do not have official conformation on this.

The growth of Twitter is tremendous and more and more media, as well as average users, are coming to Twitter.

Google joined Twitter in February, since then, many other official Google services joined the program. We have a big list of the search engines and their employees on Twitter that we hope to keep up to date. But most recently, I spotted that @GoogleWebspam has joined Twitter. The account is currently not active, but it has been confirmed to be secured by a member of the Google Web Spam team.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Google News Automatically Tweeting Stories @GoogleNews

malcolmcoles, April 29th, 2009 at 6:39 pm ET:

Given this, when is twitter going to sort out its meta description and titles in google; http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/twitters-appearance-google/
It currently has generic text as description, and full text as title – which means you see nothing useful in the title or description.

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