Google has integrated tweets into its search results on smartphones, reports The Verge. However, the terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Verge report adds that Google will get broader access to tweets every minute for this feature, which Google has used to start displaying relevant tweets when users search for certain trending topics. This feature is currently running on a trial basis. It does not seem to be live in India yet. The tweets in the mobile search results are grouped into a carousel which users can swipe through to display more tweets. The report adds that only a select number of users are seeing these tweets, suggesting that these users might be in test buckets. Twitter had mentioned in its earnings call last week that web users would begin seeing integration this month. Google had reportedly signed a deal with Twitter in February this year, which would give Google access to Twitter’s tweets. They also apparently had a similar deal four years ago, which ended in 2011. Last week, Twitter, which claims to have over 302 million monthly active users globally, reflecting 18% year-on-year growth, introduced Highlights, a feature which would push rich notifications to its users to catch up on stuff relevant to its users. This is possible for Twitter by checking the user’s following accounts, popular conversations among following users, tweets from people “the user is closely tied to”, topics and events trending in the user’s area or network and popular or trending people from…
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