BingTweets.com was launched today. Of course it’s in Beta right now, but launch of it came from no where and it’s a great step forward for Bing and great partnership between FM, Bing and Twitter. Way to beat Google :) Overall, i like the way site is setup, it’s a great way to search web and twitter at the same time. There are lot other sites that does similar things, like mixxr.co.uk and twiogle.com. However, this comes directly from Bing and not from anyone else.
Here’s my wish list for Bing Tweets:
- Customization: It would be cool if portions of the site were customizable. For example: “Trending Topics”. It would be cook if they were just like “Groups” in Seesmic desktop. You can assign users to a group and look at only their tweets. I think this will make it lot more useful especially for businesses and it will make it more like a tool that doesn’t require any installation.
2. Web Slices: Web slices were introduced in IE8 and not lot of people are aware of it or actually use it. It would be cool if “Tweets” were actual web slices – not sure if this is even possible. That way no need to check the site again and again, just looking at web slice in IE will keep the user updated.
3. Mobile: Mobile version looks really crappy at least on my T-Mobile HTC WM 6.0 phone. It would be cool to have a nice working mobile version of BingTwitter or at least abridged version
That’s it. Overall, BingTweet is cool, good product.
Bing beat Google in this one. One win at a time 🙂
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