Will Twitter Ditch Google For Bing?

Two weeks ago, Google let its deal with Twitter expire, effectively eliminating its Realtime Search results and the prominence given to tweets when users searched for news items. Now, rumors have it that Twitter isn’t playing the jilted partner for long – they’ve already entered into talks with Google’s rival, Microsoft’s Bing, to extend a similar service.

Cnet is reporting that Twitter has moved on from Google to Bing in the hopes of selling access to its firehose.

Unnamed sources cited in the article say that Twitter was caught off-guard at the fact that Google walked away from a deal to renew its access to the tweet firehose (and effectively its entire realtime search product).

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