Twitter’s Full Google Search Integration Is Coming In May
Twitter CEO doesn't offer a specific date or details. He also says that Twitter is working with Apple to add Twitter content to Spotlight search on iOS and OS X.
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What Signals From Twitter Does Google Care About?
Earlier this year, Google and Twitter struck a deal which once again gave Google access to Twitter's data stream. Columnist Miriam Hirschman explores how this might play out.
Using PPC Marketing to Make Content Go Viral: Here’s How It Works
Still spending hours upon hours pitching journalists and influencers the old fashioned way? Stop! Columnist Larry Kim outlines a better way to get your content out there using PPC.
Everything You Need To Know About The Google-Twitter Partnership
Google and Twitter recently reached a deal that once again gave Google access to Twitter's firehose. Columnist Neil Patel summarizes what we know so far and offers predictions and advice for search marketers.
Official: Twitter To Give Google Access To “Firehose” Of Tweets
It's official, Twitter confirms that it has a deal again to supply Google with access to its full stream of tweets.
Report: Google Will Get Access To Twitter’s Firehose Again
The agreement, reported by Bloomberg Business, comes 3 1/2 years after a similar arrangement ended. It will make tweets easier to find on the search giant.
Twitter Search Now Indexes Every Public Tweet
Twitter history will soon be more accessible. The company announced today that it is giving users the ability to search within the full archive of public tweets. From a blog post by Twitter search infrastructure engineer Yi Zhuang: Since that first simple Tweet over eight years ago, hundreds of billions of Tweets have captured everyday […]
Twitter: Renewed Focus On SEO Generated 10 Times More Visitors
Think social media has killed search as a traffic driver? Think again, given that social media giant Twitter shared today that SEO has helped it generate a 10-times increase in logged-out visitors to its web site. The news came during the Twitter Analyst Day event today. Twitter’s director of product management Trevor O’Brien said the company made […]
Study: Why, When & How Often Google Indexes Individual Tweets
Figuring out when and why Google indexes a specific Tweet has long been a conundrum and point of angst for many SEOs. Of course Google does index Tweets, but the methodology has seemed like a total crapshoot — until now. The good folks over at Stone Temple Consulting have attempted to crack the Twitter indexation […]
Bing Ups Its Twitter Game: Rolls Out Hashtag & Twitter Handle Search Features
Starting this week, Bing users are going to see even more Twitter content in search results. As a result of an exclusive partnership between the two companies that started in 2009, tweets have been showing up in Bing search results for some time. With Bing’s latest round of new Twitter-related search features, users now can […]
Twitter Quietly Adds Search For Timelines & Lists
Twitter continues to expand its collection of search filters with the recent addition of search for Timelines and Lists. I’m not aware of any announcement about this, but it’s showing up as a search filter on Twitter.com and in the official Twitter apps (both iOS and Android). The option in the left-side navigation says “Timelines,” […]
People, Videos, News: Twitter Adds New Search Filters
Earlier today, Twitter announced that it was bringing a number of new search filters to the site. These include: people, photos, videos, news. There are also “people you follow” and “near you” filters that further refine results. If one were to search for “Super Bowl,” results could then be filtered by those tweets that incorporated […]
How Local Businesses Can Leverage Twitter’s New Nearby Feature
Twitter has made headlines in recent weeks with the quiet launch of its experimental Nearby timeline, which allows eligible mobile users to discover tweets posted by others in their immediate vicinity, regardless of whether they are following them. This feature is currently available to a select number of users who have opted-in to allow their location […]
WSJ Report: Apple Buys Topsy, A Leading Twitter Search & Analytics Company
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has purchased Topsy, one of the leading Twitter search and analytics companies, for more than $200 million. The WSJ report says that Apple has confirmed the deal but wouldn’t comment more beyond this statement: Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do […]
Twitter Improves Search On Mobile Apps By Adding Toggles & Photo Filters
Twitter announced they have improved the search capabilities on the iOS and Android mobile apps. Twitter added: A toggle between top Tweets and all Tweets A new photo search filter Photo search results layouts for grid and list view Filter tweets by people you follow A new trending timeline in Discover shows you trends along […]
Bing, Twitter Renew Deal To Include Tweets In Search Results
Bing has announced a renewal of its long-standing deal with Twitter to include tweets in Bing’s search results. The Bing-Twitter partnership began in 2009 and was renewed in 2011. Tweets are primarily available and searchable at Bing’s social search page, bing.com/social, but they’re also showing up in Bing’s main search results. A search for […]
Twitter Now Shows Protected Tweets In Its Search Results, But Not All Can See Them
Twitter has made a small change in how it handles protected tweets in its search results. The company tweeted the news that some protected tweets will now be visible in search results — but they’ll only be visible to the user who has the protected account, and to that user’s followers. Prior to this change, […]
Shatner’s Tweet Hints That He May Like Bing Just As Much As Bing Likes Captain Kirk
In a brief exchange on Twitter yesterday evening, the original Captain Kirk gave Bing a shout-out, recommending the Microsoft search engine could possibly enlighten a fellow Twitter user. William Shatner responded “I hear Google pr Bing helps with that problem” after @Andypops1 tweeted on Shatner’s feed, “I still have no idea what spumoni is.” Assuming […]
Twitter Launches Its Version Of Universal Search Results
Twitter is in the process of rolling out what you could call its version of “universal search results” on Twitter.com. The changes bring Twitter’s Web search more in line with the current mobile experience. Twitter announced the changes this afternoon via tweet: Search update on https://t.co/eNvqKTup1d: See photos & accounts in results + recent searches […]
How To Use Twitter Cards For Branding & Local SEO
I’ve written before about the benefits of using various semantic protocols to improve your search engine optimization efforts. Using Schema.org markup and geotagging webpages can help search engines associate your website with online business listings, and a variety of semantic markup types can help your site’s listings appear more attractive in search engine results with […]
Twitter Improves Mobile Search: Top Tweets, Autocomplete & Web Browser
Twitter announced search upgrades to the Twitter mobile app. The upgrades includes an improved relevancy engine for top tweets, improved auto-completion for search and an easier web browser for results. Top Tweets In Search Results Some searches within the mobile Twitter interface may separate out top Tweets from the rest of the results. To see […]
Microsoft’s ViralSearch: Search Engine For Measuring Tweets & Viral Content
VentureBeat reports Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch. ViralSearch lets you search and navigate cascades of people passing content on social media and distinguish between things that are not just popular but also became viral in a sense that they are being passed from one person to the next over many generations. ViralSearch […]
In Another “Right to Be Forgotten” Case, UK Officials Threaten Legal Action Against People Posting Pictures Of Convicted Killer
Although slightly different than the Spanish case discussed yesterday, the “right to be forgotten” has reared its head again — this time in the UK.” UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve has threatened legal action against anyone posting pictures of convicted killer Jon Venables online. TechDirt offers a short summary of the underlying facts of the […]
Twitter Search Lets You Once Again Find Old Tweets
For ages now, Twitter has only allowed you to search for tweets back for about a week. Looking for a tweet older than that? You were out of luck, at least using Twitter itself. But now, that’s changing. In a post today, Twitter says that some older tweets are now going to be available. How […]
Find Content Quicker On The Go With Twitter’s New Mobile Search & Discover Upgrades
Users will now be able to find more on the go as a new round of mobile updates have been launched for Twitter. The updates rolled out center on content discovery as the Search, Discover and Connect tabs have all been updated. The new changes make it easier for users to view more information at anytime, from any […]
Library Of Congress Struggling To Make A Searchable Twitter Archive
The Library of Congress is still working on plans to create a searchable archive of nearly every public tweet ever sent, but the challenges inherent in that task are making it a slow process. Understandably so, considering the substantial growth in tweets in recent years; the LoC is essentially trying to tame a very rapidly […]
How To Search All Your Tweets Via Twitter
It’s been one of the biggest problems Twitter has had for years, that it’s difficult to find your own tweets on the Twitter. The new Twitter Archive service that Twitter launched today goes a long way in solving this issue. Step-By-Step: How To Download All Your Tweets With The New Twitter Archive Service is our story […]
Take Twitter Campaigns To The Next Level With SEO Data
You drive amazing amounts of traffic to your sites, grow conversions and engage with thousands of users over social media. Want to take your search and social efforts to the next level? Try forming a Social-SEO super group to exploit synergies, foster collaboration and deliver better results across Social and SEO. Integrating your online marketing […]
Twitter Makes Search Results More Visual With Top Photos, Videos & Instant Previews
Twitter is rolling out an update to its search results that will put a new “Top Photos” section above matching tweets. “Top Videos” may also appear. Twitter will also begin automatically showing tweeted pictures for those searching on the iPhone or with Android devices. Top Photos & Videos Twitter already shows top photos and images […]
SMX Social Media Features Del Harvey, The “Matt Cutts” Of Twitter
Our SMX Social Media Marketing show is coming to Las Vegas this Dec. 5 & 6, and as part of our great agenda is a keynote talk by Del Harvey, Twitter’s director of trust and safety. Not familiar with Del? You should be, if you’re a marketer doing anything involved with Twitter. She oversees what’s […]
Twitter’s New SEO Play: A Profile Directory Of All User Accounts
Twitter has quietly launched a user profile directory that it hopes will bring it more search engine traffic. It’s Twitter’s second SEO play in recent weeks, coming on the heels of a change in its robots.txt file. With that change, Twitter made its content-based search results — i.e., search results for tweets and hashtags, but […]
Twitter Opens Up To More Crawling, But Do Search Engines Want Its Search Results In Theirs?
Twitter recently updated its robots.txt file and, though the change opens up millions of pages to being crawled, there’s no guarantee that the main search engines want what Twitter is offering. The Sociable seems to have been the first to notice Twitter’s robots.txt changes, which now specifically allow Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and other bots […]
NBC Olympics Executive’s Email Wasn’t “Widely Available” In Google
The interwebs are all a flutter over how a critic of NBC’s Olympic coverage had his Twitter account suspended after tweeting the email address of the executive in charge of that coverage. It was private, said Twitter. Public to anyone with Google, said journalist Guy Adams, whose account was suspended. Actually, from what I can […]
Twitter Inching Closer To Giving You All Your Tweets, But Search Has A Long Way To Go
Twitter is working on a project that will give users access to an archive of all of their own tweets. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told the New York Times this week that the company is building a tool that would let Twitter users download their own tweets. He didn’t provide a timeframe for such a […]
Twitter Upgrades Search With Autocomplete & New Filters
Twitter’s search tool has just undergone a slight makeover with a number of new features that should help get users to the information they’re looking for quicker than before. The most noticeable upgrade is the addition of autocompleted search suggestions that appear below the search box as you type. The dropdown will show terms that […]
The Fleeting Nature Of Twitter: 17 Percent Of Top Searches Change Every Hour
Nearly 20 percent of the top search queries on Twitter at any given moment won’t be a popular search query just one hour later. That’s according to a new research paper that Twitter will present this week at a social media conference. Twitter researchers Jimmy Lin and Gilad Mishne analyzed all search queries on the […]
Google Loses Search PR Director Gabriel Stricker To Twitter
Gabriel Stricker is still listed on Google as Director of Communications, Search. However he’s now VP of Communications for Twitter. He follows Karen Wickre, Google’s former Senior Media Liaison, who joined Twitter about seven months ago. And quite some time before that, Carolyn Penner left Google’s PR team for Twitter. I also noticed that Shailesh […]
How People Power (& Personalize) Bing’s Social Search
The good folks over at Stone Temple Consulting released an in-depth interview with Bing’s Principal Group Program Manager for Bing Social Search, Paul Yiu. The Bing social search team integrates social content and indicators into the search results to add both personalization and relevance to the search results. Bing currently ties in data from both […]
Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”
Yandex is the next in line to gain access to the Twitter “firehose.” The Russian search engine is announcing that it will begin integrating the Twitter feed into its search results. Twitter reported the deal to us late last week but declined to disclose its terms. As part of their agreement Yandex will have access […]
How To Track U.S. Congress Members’ Tweets
Many U.S. Senators and Representatives are tweeting opinions, updates, images, documents, etc. these days, and Twitter can be a very useful, if not an essential tool, to learn about what’s going on directly from each member, especially regarding controversial legislation such as SOPA. An easy to use but powerful web tool (it’s also free) named […]