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Well by all of half a day.

Yesterday morning Microsoft announced, at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, it had signed a deal with Twitter and Facebook to include Tweets and status updates in Bing’s search results. You can see Bing’s results here bing.com/twitter.

Google then came back later in the day with an announcement on it’s blog saying that it had a similar agreement with Twitter the blog stated;

In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people to communicate their thoughts and feelings, but also as an interesting source of data about what is happening right now in regard to a particular topic.

Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results.

There is no reference to Facebook so at the moment it looks like Bing has the advantage. Although ironically when I tried searching for Windows 7 which currently appears as one of the hottest topics on Twitter I got the result below.

In fact the only Twitter results I could see were when I first arrived at the page so there is obviously further work required.

UPDATE: You need to be in the US or change your locale setting to United States and then it works.