From today, the notion of real time web is not longer a myth! This idea, the idea of searching the web in real time, was almost unimaginable. Although web spiders (like the GoogleBot), spiders that crawl the web and index web pages at amazing speeds, are a thing of the present, the concept of real time web is still not understood as it should. Well, because of our bellowed Twitter, things are not in a new dimension.
Its popularity made Twitter famous. And not just the popularity! There are millions of Tweets each minute. Think of all this data! There are millions of subjects and each receives hundreds of Tweets every minute. If you are a person waiting for a friend’s Tweet, if you are a politician looking at what Tweets say about you, it makes no difference. Admit it, the web is starting to get more and more real time.
Microsoft’s Bing has done it! As from “today at Web 2.0 we announced that working with those clever birds over at Twitter, we now have access to the entire public Twitter feed and have a beta of Bing Twitter search for you to play with (in the US, for now). Try it out. The Bing and Twitter teams want to know what you think.” – Microsoft. Check it out folks! You have the links right there!