clipped from: www.pcworld.com 
Microsoft Corp.'s Bing has beaten Google Inc. to the punch.
Google has been rumored to be casting an eye toward creating a tool for searching social networking sites, like Twitter. But today, Bing came out and did it.
"There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter," wrote Suchter, who was formerly Yahoo Inc.'s vice president of search technology. "We've been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space ... We're not indexing all of Twitter at this time... We picked a few thousand people to start, based primarily on their follower count and volume of tweets."