Twitter is now officially speaking out against Google’s new search featuresthat give prominent placement to content from its own social network, Google+.
In a statement, Twitter complained that “people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users” would suffer from not being able to quickly see tweets in search results.
“As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter; as a result, Twitter accounts and Tweets are often the most relevant results,” the company said.
Twitter General Counsel Alex Macgillivray, among other thought leaders who criticized Google’s Google-centric approach, had already personally called today’s launch a “bad day for the Internet.”
Google and Twitter have a history on this topic. Like most public Web sites, Twitter likes to get traffic from Google. Google used to have a paid deal to get real-time access to Twitter’s live “firehose” of tweets. It doesn’t anymore (though Bing does).
That doesn’t mean Google isn’t allowed to show tweets in its search results, or anything like that. Google just has to use its crawlers and other publicly available tools to index public tweets. And almost all tweets — of which there are 250 million per day — are public.
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