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November 10, 2009

Personal branding just got easier! Twitter and LinkedIn to share status updates

Social networks Twitter and LinkedIn sign partnership to allow users to cross-post messages across the services

Micro-blogging platform Twitter and business networking site LinkedIn, which has 50 million registered users, have announced a partnership to enable their users to cross-post their status updates.

Allen Blue, LinkedIn's co-founder and VP of product strategy, announced the decision on the LinkedIn blog: "The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, you can send that message to your LinkedIn connections as well, from any Twitter service or tool.

The way that the integration works on the Twitter side is especially interesting, because you can choose between two versions: you can decide to use the Twitter settings to send all of your tweets, or select certain tweets from Twitter back to LinkedIn as a status update which you mark with the hashtag #li or #in.

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visit http://learn.linkedin.com/twitter/ to learn more.

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October 23, 2009

Google signs search deal with Twitter, delivering blow to Bing

Google has announced it has also signed a search deal with Twitter on the same day Microsoft’s Bing declared its partnership with the microblogging service.

Only a few hours earlier, Microsoft announced it had signed a deal with Twitter and Facebook to include its users’ status updates in Bing’s search results, at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.

Google has now retaliated, announcing a very similar sounding deal via its blog. The post said: “Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results.

“We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.”

There was no mention in the blog post about a tie-up with Facebook, and Sheryl Sandberg, the social networking company’s chief operating officer, remained tight-lipped about a potential Google search deal while on stage at Web 2.0. The former Google employee refused to be drawn in either direction, but did not deny that the link-up could happen.

When comparing Google to Facebook, Ms Sandberg said that the two companies were coming from different points of view about information sharing. “The question is how do you get the information you want? Google sources its information from strangers, whereas we believe in the wisdom of friends.”

Microsoft’s partnerships with Twitter and Facebook are not exclusive and the beta site, www.bing.com/twitter went live today.

So-called "real-time" search is viewed as the next battleground for internet search, with web users tapping in to services such as Twitter to find out the hot topics of conversation and latest news at any given moment.

By Emma Barnett, Technology and Digital Media Correspondent in San Francisco, reporting from Web 2.0 conference

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October 16, 2009

New! Lists on Twitter! (beta) Organize the people you follow and new and interesting accounts.

New! Lists. A great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts. (BETA)

Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of friends, family, co-workers, sports teams, you name it. You're part of a small group receiving this feature, so don't tweet about it yet!

Check out the twitter team list http://twitter.com/twitter/team

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October 13, 2009