...begins and ends in 24 hours, more or less.
Shortly after Microsoft is said to have inked a liaison to
incorporate Twitter and Facebook updates into Bing, Google announces a
similar deal with Twitter.
Success and usefulness of either will depend on how they decide to present that living breathing gangbang of real-time data. Can't wait to see how it pans out.
Interesting though how no one has yet come up with a freeform (and indexable) way to share thoughts in real-time that can viably compete with Twitter. I guess that's part of what Google's trying to do with Wave, but can't say for sure as I don't have it yet.
(*scowls*)