Feb 27, 2009 at 1:30pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Yesterday, Google joined Twitter with a company account. We twittered a few search engine-related addresses as part of our post about that, but we wanted to do one that was a little more organized. So welcome to our big search engine Twitter list!
The list isn’t complete, nor will it ever be. But that’s how it went with blogging. A few years ago, search engines and their employees jumped into the world of blogging (our Search Engine Land blogroll lists a number of these). “Who’s blogging” lists soon emerged, until blogging became so mainstream that people stopped bothering to keep track.
Now the early adopters are turning to Twitter, and in turn, making it more mainstream. Here’s a starting list of who’s out there from the search engine world:
Google & Google Product Blogs
(NOTE: See also Google Posts List Of All Its Official Twitter Accounts, which was posted after this article was written)
Google: Web Search
Google: Webmaster Central
Google: AdWords
Google: More Twitters
Microsoft: Live Search
Microsoft: adCenter
Microsoft: Powerset & Other
Yahoo & Yahoo Product Blogs
Yahoo: Buzz
Yahoo: Web Search
Yahoo: More Twitters
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And don’t forget, the editors here at Search Engine Land are on Twitter, along with Search Engine Land itself:
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@benmwatson / Ben Watson (Live Search software engineer) http://www.twitter.com/benmwatson
@yahooguy / Gabe Elliott (search & display Executive)
http://twitter.com/YahooGuy
@googlewmc (official Google Webmaster Central)
Thanks for the list Danny, it will be great to see the tweets thrown up by these unsuspecting employees after the rush of followers :)
@fareologist (offical Microsoft Live Search Farecast)
@cashbackdotcom (official Microsoft Live Search cashback)
That’s Great to see Google come to twitter . and all others top sites
i think same big change will happen to site of twitter .
Are you only counting the web search engines?
@dtunkelang (Chief Scientist of Endeca)
Its not only search engines, many companies have created their twitter profile, GE, Microsoft, dell, etc..
These are all people from the blog search engine Twingly:
http://twitter.com/martinkallstrom / Martin Källström (CEO)
http://twitter.com/agaton / Anton Johansson
http://twitter.com/osks / Oskar Skoog
http://twitter.com/nicke / Niclas Wiström
http://twitter.com/matdahl / Mattias Dahlström
http://twitter.com/anmara / Anja Rauch
http://twitter.com/bjomi / Björn Milton
http://twitter.com/forsgren / Kristoffer Forsgren
Forgot one from the Twingly staff:
http://twitter.com/pontuse / Pontus Edenberg
@ forsgren agreed we need more from the blogging community, but i think that was Dannys point, it will be unending… i have added Martin Kallstrom :happysmiley:
@baoki although a lot of what I tweet from this account is social media or community application/building related (and sometimes videogames).
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I’m assuming that the individuals would own their named twitter accounts but has anyone seen examples where the account is owned instead by the search company?
Aww, Cuil doesn’t make the list? I’m Senior UI Developer at Cuil, @bck on Twitter, and one of our engineers, Ash Rust, is on there too as @ashrust.
I think I need to take a closer look on Twitter….
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