Real Time Tweets in Search Engine Results

The revolution is finally upon us - the search engines are recognising the power of social media and at present Bing is winning the race.

Mashable (always up there with breaking news for us geeks) today revealed that Microsoft has agreed a deal with Twitter and Facebook to feature their real-time tweets and status updates in their SERPs.  This is big news and one of the most exciting developments I've seen in the world of search recently.

Hopefully this move will encourage those businesses which don't have a presence on such networks to pull their socks up and give us struggling social media junkies the thumbs up for action.  On that note, I best have a word with the boss!

**UPDATE** Less than 24 hours later Google has joined the race and officially confirmed that they too have struck a deal with Twitter to showcase their real-time results in Google's SERPs in the "coming months".  See Google's Blog for all the info.