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Hi,

Does anyone have any information on Google and Bing planning to include Twitter posts within their searches?

This sounds really bizarre or will it be in a seperate search function?

Anyone heard anything about this?

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Short timeline and reality check: this did happen — Bing and Google began experimenting with live Twitter content in late 2009 (Bing even launched a dedicated Twitter search), Google later pulled realtime access when its “firehose” deal lapsed in 2011, and tweets were reintroduced into Google’s results after a new agreement in 2015 (initially on mobile). (wired.com)

What this actually means for site owners and ’s concern: you can’t “SEO” a regular website into Twitter’s native tweet results because tweets and Twitter profiles are separate indexable objects. The practical route is distribution and shareability — keep a public, active account; post concise, linkable tweets with relevant hashtags; and make the linked pages share-friendly by adding social metadata so shared links render and click better. For privacy worries raised by , protected (private) posts won’t appear in third‑party search engines, and deleted content can persist in caches (use platform controls and search‑engine removal tools when necessary). (help.x.com)

Quick actionable checklist (apply today):

  • Treat Twitter as a distribution channel, not a place to “SEO” your site.
  • Use social meta (Open Graph / Twitter Card metadata) on pages so shares show attractive titles/images.
  • Post clear text + direct links from a reputable account; use hashtags selectively for discovery.
  • Monitor mentions with alerts/social listening and, if removal is required, use Google’s removal tools and platform privacy settings.
  • Remember Bing places extra weight on social signals compared with Google, so social traction can help Bing visibility. (ogp.me)

Tying this back to earlier thread points: as and others observed the technical experiments were real, and as noted there were news cycles about it — the practical takeaway today is to focus on making shareable content and controlling privacy at source, because search engines will continue to surface public social posts where they add user value.

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Member Avatar for jay 11

Does anyone have any information on Google and Bing planning to include Twitter posts within their searches?

As of right now, I don't think there has been an official date announced for when Google or Bing will start displaying Twitter updates in their search results - but it sounds like it will happen soon.. FWIW - I read in some outlets that the inclusion of tweets in Google search results could be available in a couple of months.

Bing recently unveiled a beta version of its , but this will only return content from Twitter. Eventually they will get around to integrating tweets into their standard search results.

This sounds really bizarre or will it be in a seperate search function?

I'm not sure how it will exactly be integrated, but Google gave the following example on it's official blog - "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."

Member Avatar for MktgRob

There were two previous posts in the last 24 hours about these with links to news stories.

Member Avatar for InsightsDigital

Overall, the integration of these social media updates to SERP will definitely revolutionize the search experience. I do wonder how this will affect websites SEO?

Member Avatar for misodiet

Folks, to be honest, I dont like the Twitter integration at all, I think that it shows poor results and I dont know how to optimize my site for Twitter.

Member Avatar for jay 11

Folks, to be honest, I dont like the Twitter integration at all, I think that it shows poor results and I dont know how to optimize my site for Twitter.

The twitter results on the Search Engine Results Pages are from twitter accounts, not websites. In other words, there is no way to optimize a website to appear in Twitter results.

Member Avatar for jonash23

I think Google already include twitter search result on their engine, but it require another firefox add on to show it, I have no idea about bing, but if bing do the same as Google there is nothing wrong with it.all for the good of user

Member Avatar for mackone

Just tried a few popular phrases. It's about half way down the page for me. Quite impressive watching it happen.

Member Avatar for dcc1

yes its going on. I've been seeing them specifically with Google Alerts.

Check it out.

Member Avatar for InsightsDigital

My only concern is that there is no sense of privacy anymore online - every tweet, every FB update, becomes search-able. I hope people realize this.

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It good to us

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