Bing certainly isn’t wasting any time in showing off how much it loves Twitter. The search engine has just launched BingTweets, a new site created in tandem with Federated Media that combines Twitter Search results with Bing Search. The hybrid allows users to browse through Bing while they see a stream of real-time results fly by, which could be particularly useful for researching a current event, or perhaps a new movie.
The top of the site features a listing of popular terms, grouped into a general ‘popular now’ category, and then divided by People Places, and Products. You’re also free to search for whatever term you’d like using the box in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
The resulting site could prove useful, but it’s a little cluttered, with a scrolling list of constantly updated Tweets on the left side and your standard Bing search results on the right. This would be fine, were it not for the large ‘trending topics’ section and ’sharing’ sections in the header which should probably be tucked along the side. My biggest gripe, though, is that the Bing search results are in a frame — I’d much rather just have the whole page dedicated to the results, even if I had to sacrifice the nice blue border.
This isn’t Bing’s first attempt to fuse its results with Tweets — the site began rolling out integrated results from Twitter earlier this month, but it is only using results from especially prolific and popular Tweeters, which diminishes the feature’s value. Microsoft has previously worked with Federated Media on the launch of ExecTweets, a Twitter aggregator that displays tweets from top business executives.
One side note: Microsoft actually released BingTweets around an hour ago, but it went down almost immediately afterward, and performance is still very spotty. BingTweets will still certainly be a hit in the Twittersphere, but there’s no better way to kill your virality.
BingTweets loads fine for me… way to go Bing!
I don’t like the site design. The bing results are displayed in a iFrame, and the twitter results are on the side. Is not really a good integration of the results.
is no different then going to bing to search from a key word, then going onto twitter search to for the same key word.
and there aren’t really good co-releation between the twitter search results and bing results.
and if you perform a whois.sc/bingtweets.com search, you will see that bingtweets.com was registered on 5/28/2009. meaning this website was developed in recent months
For as far as I am concerned, this page is merely combine twitter & bing search results onto one page, and the result display are damaged because bing results are in an iFrame. not really a good integration as far as I am concern.
I think Federate Media is merely using Bing search API and displaying the results in the iFrame like i stated. I think the value added to the end user is very little.
Good idea, poor execution. I prefer the Yauba approach, although I don’t care for the black background
The site is still down for me. Another great results for Federated Media to get a partnership with Bing, but results seem to be terrible as always.
BingTweets is really good to stay in touch with the latest news and events. I used it and it works great.
Sometimes you may not win doing more…
WOW!! taking steps this fast for such a big company like MS is amazing.
is not MSFT who developed this site. is Federate Media who is using Bing search API on its page.
it is not an official MSFT product
Who cares who developed it? MS got it up and out the door and done using a partner. It’s still “official MS”, whatever that means.
Note the footer:
BingTweets is a partnership between Microsoft and Federated Media.
they are not even using an API, its an <iframe
All that they did was get Bings permission to use the logo… They could take the same exact site slap a google logo, change the <ifram to point at google and have GoogleTweets, and YahooTweets,
The real news here is that Bing let Federated Media use its logo…
Classic search and real time search are definitely going to merge into combined services. You can count on it that Goog is working day and night on this. The pressure for both of them is on to buy twitter in order to own the currently most popular real time stream.
I also found the Pub Sub Hubbub demo at the CrunchUp very impressive – kid of an open twitter protocol that leverages the installed basis of RSS
Tested it and had to realize that my entire focus was on the twitter data. guess this service is only useful if you don’t know what a twitter-trends entry is about. on the other hand – google is just one [@, Tab] combo away. ✌
My eyes. The goggles, they do nothing.
Brilliant move, and useful site. How can Google possibly follow this?
Well said. Bing is gaining momentum in search advertising too. It already surpassed Yahoo. Source – http://bit.ly/25JYBf
I’m guessing that’s sarcasm, right? Cause, erm, they could follow it by paying Federated 100K to build GoogleTweets.com in a weekend…
GoogleTweets.com sounds like a billion dollar idea. I hear a lot of VCs are interested in this idea. Too bad someone already brought GoogleTweets.com, maybe YahooTweets.com? or maybe TweetsTweets.com a website that displays tweets with other tweets.
Microsoft should release a new font known as “Bingdings” – off topic but for some reason “Bingtweets” made me think of it
Like the idea but not to hot on the execution. If you enter a search term into the search results page the twitter term doesn’t update. But, if you do it from the search bar at the top of the page it does. They need to refocus on how/where users will go to enter their search terms…
The site is running great and seems useful.
Pretty cool; makes me wish I had iguana eyes though.
To me, the type of search I do using a traditional search engine is different than the type of search I do tapping into the stream.
Don’t cross the streams. – Dr. Egon Spengler
Good Initiative, but I found the site too cluttered. A nice UI redesign would be a logical next step.
great stuff. apparently microsoft cured their cranium rectal problem.
don’t like the site at all. sorry
it is kind of stupid
Can someone tell me why a company like Microsoft would need federated media to develop this product?
um, who cares… there are 50 of these popping up a day. federated media builds these for advertisers who are stupid enough to buy them. they get no traffic, some brand spends $300k to sponsor it and the only winner is federated media. remember exectweets? that seems to be doing so well that it’s not even on the traffic radar for quantcast http://bit.ly/HFS3r
when one of these sites starts to gain consistent traffic in the 500k unique user a month range, then it’s newsworthy.
300k? That is amazing if that is true. This thing is built in wordpress. It probably took someone a couple hours to make this site.
“Awesome” and “Microsoft” have not been in the same sentence since “XBOX 360″. It may not break the sound barrier and the design isn’t super great but at least they are trying to combine search with real-time social stream and that is worth a pat on the back.
The categories are nice, but the UI is a cluttered mess.
And i don’t really like how the Twitter results only feed in the single most recent and start from there.
although i am a great twitter fan, bing+ twitter looks a little messy for me. not everyone would like o get annoyed with constant updates from twitter while doing a search. Plus it has too many features which may not be useful while doing some serious search.
“Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”
FAIL
Yeah, I’m getting that too. Wait… BingTweets is powered by WordPress?!?! Wow… just wow…
That’s another good tool for spotting twitter trends
Nice blog, just bookmarked it for later reference….Thanks a lot for sharingGood post and nice design, is this a regular template?
It will be very interesting to know if the links created through the Bing indexation of tweets made in twitter could be consider as a valuable link for the sites!
Jason, in my opinion it is pretty useless. To me, it looks like a Bing Search engine plus a useless sidebar where all the noise about the searched keyword appear. Does it really provide value to the user?
We integrated Bing search with Twitter search in our realtime rank-based search engine Tweefind.com. The difference is that tweets are REALLY relevant and only those from highest-ranked users are shown (updated every 15 seconds with the new version launched yesterday). Then, you can easily switch to Bing search if you need and if you want more. Plus, we extract the most relevant and most retweeted links out from the tweets. Do you think it is more useful for users?
I would really appreciate your comment on this. Ciao