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Google search goes real-time

Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. The move to integrate real-time search results directly into Google’s flagship Web search product comes nearly two months after the company announced a partnership to license data from microblogging service Twitter. It also... 

National Stock Exchange joins Twitter Club

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has joined the fast-growing ‘Twitterati’ club, and to start with the bourse has begun posting live quotes of its benchmark index Nifty on the micro-blogging website Twitter. With this, NSE has become the first Indian bourse — and so far the only one — to have a presence on Twitter, which has become a favoured short-messaging social networking... 

Majority of Indians use Twitter for news

Twitter may have gained immense popularity as a microblogging website but in India majority use it as a source for news.  A survey by a technology site says about 16% of Indian users regularly ‘tweet’ to get news updates. While 11% use it to stay in touch with their friends, 10% use the website for research purpose, according to the survey. The social networking site, launched in 2006... 

Now, Queen Rania of Jordan hops on to the Twitter bandwagon

London, May 9 (ANI): After Barack Obama and Britney Spears, Queen Rania of Jordan has become the latest high profiler to join the microblogging service Twitter. Rania Al Abdullah, the wife of King Abdullah II, has had more than 2,000 followers and had recently updated her profile 17 times. The 38-year-old dubbed herself as “a mum and a wife with a really cool day job” on her Twitter page... 
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