It is confirmed that Microsoft reached a deal with Twitter and Facebook to add real-time updates into their search engine Bing. However, it only took few hours for Google to announce that they also got a similar deal with Twitter. No clear information is yet available regarding Facebook.

You can try the beta version of Bing Twitter implementation here, but don’t be surprised when you get the following message if your locale is not set united states.

TWITTER BETA

Sorry!
Bing Twitter Search is not available in this locale.

If you wish to access Bing Twitter Search, change your locale to United States.

Note: Changing your locale will affect all Bing pages. To change your locale in the future, click the United States link at the top right corner of any Bing page.

The feed from Facebook is said to work pretty much in the same way as with Twitter, however this is not available yet since Facebook has not opened its feed to public and they “need to be very careful about making sure the correct data is streamed.”, said Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg.
The weird thing in the story that Sandberg doesn’t mention any money involved in this deal, which of course I don’t really believe.

JAJAH, VoIP (Voice Over IP) provider will allow its users to make free calls using Twitter. The service is started in beta now.
Note both the caller and the callee needs to be part of the @Call service. So how does it work?
From twitter, you tweet: “@call @username” using the twitter username of the person you wish to call.
If you are logged in to twitter from a PC, you phone will ring, once you answer, the call will be placed you will hear a message “Please hold, JAJAH is connecting your call…” and you wait for the person to pick in the other end. You can also try it from your mobile phone.
JAJAH will connect the call without reveal contact information to any party. For privacy reasons, calls can only be made to followers.
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