Should You Worry about Search Engines Listening to Your Tweet Thoughts?

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Twitter is perhaps the most popular site of today with billions of tweets from users around the globe. Realizing this Microsoft and Google are trying to take advantage of this and they are trying to integrate the tweets into their topic searches.

Both of these search engine super powers are in negation with Twitter to get real time Twitter feeds streaming straight to these search engines themselves. Although Twitter actually has its own built in search engine, it is currently not tied into the other search engines on the web. Since Twitter will probably never be able to get its search engine to compare to the status to that of Google or Microsoft, this might just possibly be the best way for their tweets to get even more attention.

These companies would have to expand their search engine capabilities in order to be able to accomplish the task, however since Twitter is currently one of the biggest sites, with the most visits on the web, it is likely that the joining of forces could truly benefit all the companies involved.

Now, you may be wondering why it is that these large successful companies would want to bring the tweets to their search engines, but the answer is really simple. Twitter has many unique users and although much of the information is idol chit-chat it is also a source of breaking news as many who frequent the site carry hand held devices and will tweet about the news as it is happening, making this a valuable resource for companies like Microsoft and Google to have access to.

At the end of the day, we will just have to wait and see if this ever happens, however, if the information that is coming through Twitter can be screened well, it can serve as perhaps the fastest news resource on the web. Be careful what you tweet about though, because it could cost you your job if you tweet about the wrong person. And whatever you do, don’t talk about what star didn’t pay their bill or tip you, or you could be in for a lawsuit as well. Be careful about what you are tweeting!

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