Yahoo! Partners With Twitter
Yahoo! - the world's third largest website and second largest search engine announced that it has clinched a deal with Twitter to share content across both properties.
Yahoo! has more than 600 million users around the world - all of them will be able to update all of their social networks in a simple step.
Anyone with a Yahoo! ID can check their e-mail can update their Twitter feeds through e-mail and news, which allows them to stay up-to-date with information and people.
Yahoo! users will also see real-time Twitter updates on various topics while browsing, ranging from news, finance, sports and entertainment sites.
It believes that this will increase user engagement and create opportunities for publishers, advertisers and developers.
Not long back, Yahoo! also reached a similar agreement with Facebook, increasing the partnership to make it easier for users to share Facebook status updates and other information on Yahoo or share Yahoo sports scores or Flickr photos on Facebook.
This partnership will take effect later on this year.
But the recent Twitter and Yahoo! deal goes beyond the past deals Twitter has with Bing and Google.
Here is a short summary of how Yahoo! is getting cozier with Twitter: 1.
Users can now access Twitter feeds from anywhere in Yahoo! Yahoo! has a huge range of products starting from the homepage to e-mail, sports etc.
People will be able to access their tweets from a variety of Yahoo platforms and products.
So they are updated with information while surfing Yahoo.
2.
Send Twitter updates from Yahoo! Users will also be able to update their Twitter status messages and share content from Yahoo.
Easy sharing of Yahoo information and an option of updating statuses will be a big boost to Yahoo traffic.
3.
Real-time public Twitter updates appearing in Search (and other media properties) Yahoo Search, Finance, Entertainment, Sports, and News will now also feature real-time Twitter status updates from people across innumerable topics.
This is much more than what Google features at the moment.
This feature is the most interesting one.
This is a great deal for Yahoo and Twitter both.
Yahoo recently also announced its search deal with Microsoft.
And definitely Yahoo has leapfrogged both Google and Microsoft in their Twitter integration deals.
We can now say that Yahoo has responded to Google Buzz in an interestingly different manner altogether.
Yahoo! has more than 600 million users around the world - all of them will be able to update all of their social networks in a simple step.
Anyone with a Yahoo! ID can check their e-mail can update their Twitter feeds through e-mail and news, which allows them to stay up-to-date with information and people.
Yahoo! users will also see real-time Twitter updates on various topics while browsing, ranging from news, finance, sports and entertainment sites.
It believes that this will increase user engagement and create opportunities for publishers, advertisers and developers.
Not long back, Yahoo! also reached a similar agreement with Facebook, increasing the partnership to make it easier for users to share Facebook status updates and other information on Yahoo or share Yahoo sports scores or Flickr photos on Facebook.
This partnership will take effect later on this year.
But the recent Twitter and Yahoo! deal goes beyond the past deals Twitter has with Bing and Google.
Here is a short summary of how Yahoo! is getting cozier with Twitter: 1.
Users can now access Twitter feeds from anywhere in Yahoo! Yahoo! has a huge range of products starting from the homepage to e-mail, sports etc.
People will be able to access their tweets from a variety of Yahoo platforms and products.
So they are updated with information while surfing Yahoo.
2.
Send Twitter updates from Yahoo! Users will also be able to update their Twitter status messages and share content from Yahoo.
Easy sharing of Yahoo information and an option of updating statuses will be a big boost to Yahoo traffic.
3.
Real-time public Twitter updates appearing in Search (and other media properties) Yahoo Search, Finance, Entertainment, Sports, and News will now also feature real-time Twitter status updates from people across innumerable topics.
This is much more than what Google features at the moment.
This feature is the most interesting one.
This is a great deal for Yahoo and Twitter both.
Yahoo recently also announced its search deal with Microsoft.
And definitely Yahoo has leapfrogged both Google and Microsoft in their Twitter integration deals.
We can now say that Yahoo has responded to Google Buzz in an interestingly different manner altogether.
