Microsoft has announced that it will add live updates from micro-blogging service Twitter to its search engine - Bing. Following that, Google too announced plans for live Twitter updates integration in its search engine. At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft mentioned about its public access to public Twitter feed and also got Bing Twitter search beta; only for U.S. residents as of now. Google promised to roll out Twitter integration in its search engine “in the coming months”.
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Facebook Is Going for Some Twitter Sensibility
Like a balding hipster who imitates a young trendsetter’s style, Facebook is updating itself to look a lot more like Twitter.
Unlike Facebook, where friends mutually agree to let one another into their online lives, Twitter lets people share updates and links with anyone who cares to read them.
That has turned Twitter into a tool for people to peer into the collective mind and see what people are talking about in real time. It is also a tool for businesses to reach customers and monitor what their customers are saying about them.
Facebook seems to be very interested in those features. Since last fall, when Facebook tried and failed to acquire Twitter, it has been slowly introducing features that mimic Twitter.
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Another attack hits Twitter
Twitter’s servers were on the fritz again on Tuesday, with members receiving server timeouts and third-party applications unable to access the microblogging service. This appears to have begun around 11:45 a.m. PDT.
Twitter posted an update to its status blog when the servers had been in flux for about 10 minutes: “Responding to site downtime. We’re working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more.”
The service was back up about a half hour later. At 12:17 p.m. PT, Twitter confirmed that it was an attack. “We’re back up and analyzing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack,” the company said.
Outages used to be commonplace at Twitter when the small start-up’s servers were unable to keep up with the massive amount of data flowing through them. They gradually became less and less frequent. But this one’s particularly notable because it happens as Twitter is still reeling from a denial-of-service attack last week that targeted a Georgian activist blogger but ended up knocking Twitter’s servers offline for several hours. Other services, like Facebook and LiveJournal, were also affected by the attack.
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