Searching Twitter with Bing
Ok, this is very cool. I just tried it, and I’m impressed. Fast, relevent results from the real-time twitter stream. Load up www.bing.com/twitter and it gives you a tag cloud of what’s trending. I clicked on the Windows 7 tag and got a real-time, continuously refreshing twitter stream back – nothing more than 1 minute old, tweets scrolling across the screen as they come in.
Equally cool, below that, there’s a list of the top links people have shared on Twitter (A nice view I’ll be using again).
Here’s an interesting one from that list: Windows 7 is the all-time most pre-ordered product on Amazon UK, beating out Harry Potter.
Nicely done!
See the Bing Blog to read more about searching Twitter on Bing, including screenshots, etc.
Even better, try it yourself now.
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About john.mullinax
John Mullinax is a Platform Strategy Advisor with Microsoft's DPE Team. Before joining Microsoft in 2006, John held a vartiety of positions at Ford Motor Company, most recently leading IT services strategy to support explosive business growth in China. Other positions included: Enterprise Architect, Application Portfolio Management, Technology Governance, and Product Manager. Prior to joining Ford, John earned his MBA at the University of Washington. Before that, he was Director of Elections for Douglas County, Washington, where he conducted the first Federal mail-ballot election in the USA. Subsequently, he joined the Secretary of State's office as a consultant working with county election officials in Washington state to improve operational effectiveness, integrity, and security (aka, to prevent the kind of debacle we saw in Florida in 2000).
