The two sites have signed a partnership .The success of Twitter stokes the greed and gambling “who will be positioned on the first page of micro-blogging, Yahoo has taken an option. The U.S. portal has announced on Wednesday it had signed a partnership with Twitter. This will allow Yahoo users to use Twitter directly from Yahoo to update their status, read and share their feed with his contacts.
Besides the race for real-time giants – and “old” – the Net’s also looking to surf the successful social networks. A U.S. study released Monday shows that Facebook and Twitter still experiencing strong growth, particularly in terms of time spent on these sites. Between December 2008 and December 2009, the time spent on Twitter and Facebook has increased by 82%.
Yahoo has signed a deal with Twitter with the aim of increasing the integration of its content with social networking. Users can see content in real-time Twitter, and update their status without leaving the Yahoo.
From now on the search results on Yahoo, Twitter cover content in real time, like Google and Microsoft already announced late last year. The portal also intends to display real-time web content related microblogging thematic sections and services of their website.
With this move, Yahoo wants to tap the growing interest and participation of users in different social networks, providing access and content sharing directly from the pages.
The Twitter activity level has increased markedly in January, reaching the milestone of 50 million tweets per day, a volume of content that large Internet companies like Yahoo do not want to leave out.