Yahoo embraces Twitter

Somewhere now Yahoo! announced a partnership with Twitter to publish updates directly from its user portal. Yahoo! part in the attack on the Web!

Why not try to implement a strategy “social” and “community”, taking advantage of the popularity of existing tools? This is the idea followed by Yahoo! after trying in vain to win a spot on the Web with Yahoo! 360, Yahoo! Mash or even Kickstart. After signing a five-year agreement with Facebook in the month of December for the future integration of technology Facebook Connect on its portals, this time Yahoo! approaches Twitter.


Internet surfers can then update your own messages and read those of your contacts directly on the website Yahoo, the page devoted to e-mail Yahoo! Mail Pass for Yahoo! Sports. Besides the ability to update your status directly from the homepage of Yahoo, the portal should also include updates of Twitter in real time, so that users can follow the most interesting debates on a given topic.

In short, Yahoo! try to associate the content of its information portal and more Twitter activity. Biz Stone, cofounder of the microblogging site, is enthusiastic about the 50 million tweet published every day. The Sunnyvale company announced that it has completed the elaborzione results of Twitter as a search engine.