Twitter Cuts Deal With Google To Let Tweets Appear In Searches
By Matthew Lyle • February 5, 2015
In the first half of this year, tweets will start to be visible in Google’s search results as soon as they’re posted, thanks to a deal giving the Web company access to Twitter’s firehose, the stream of data generated by the microblogging service’s 284 million users, people with knowledge of the matter said Wednesday. Google previously had to crawl Twitter’s site for the information, which will now be visible automatically. Twitter’s shares jumped in early trading.