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Twitter Hires a COO
Interesting move by Twitter to hire Dick Costolo as its new COO, according to TechCrunch. Costolo was the co-founder and CEO with FeedBurner before it was acquired by Google for $100-million.
Google Embraces Twitter
All Twitter, All the Time. Google has embraced Twitter in a huge way when you consider how many Twitter accounts – 44, to be exact it now uses. Update: VentureBeat wonders why Google just doesn’t buy Twitter if it’s so excited about using it. Good question.
Topsy Spins Search on its Head
After three years in development, Topsy has finally launched…and it’s a search engine that actually lives up to the hype. Topsy generates results based on how many times a search term is mentioned on Twitter. The idea is that if something attracts a lot of Tweets, it must be interesting or relevant. What makes Topsy [...]
Google to Gobble Twitter?
It must be a slow news day in TechLand if TechCrunch is trumpeting the fact Google is close to completing a deal to acquire Twitter. Wait, TechCrunch now reports discussions are only in the early stages, and the two companies are looking at ways at working together on Google’s real-time search engine project. Rumors, speculation [...]
Twitter Search Results on Google
Given all the talk recently about how Twitter could poise a threat to Google’s search dominance, this post by MT-Hacks caught my attention as it describes a Greasemonkey user script that displays the most recent 5 tweets for a Google search query on the top of the Google search page.
Searchtastic: Fine but Not Fantastic