Tweets now visible on Google search

August 22, 2015 05:47 pm | Updated June 17, 2016 01:59 am IST - New York

A Thai woman uses Twitter on an electrical device at a coffee shop on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Bangkok. Thailand is welcoming Twitter's new policy to censor tweets in specific nations where the content might break laws. Technology minister Anudith Nakornthap said the new policy was a "constructive" development. The Southeast Asian country routinely blocks websites with content deemed offensive to the Thai monarchy.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

A Thai woman uses Twitter on an electrical device at a coffee shop on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Bangkok. Thailand is welcoming Twitter's new policy to censor tweets in specific nations where the content might break laws. Technology minister Anudith Nakornthap said the new policy was a "constructive" development. The Southeast Asian country routinely blocks websites with content deemed offensive to the Thai monarchy.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Now you can see Tweets in the Google search results as Google has added Tweets to their real-time search results on the desktop.

Google’s results will now show Tweets along with standard search results on your desktop, especially when search terms have to do with keywords that are trending on Twitter at the time the search is made, Slashgear.com reported.

For example, searching for ‘NASA Twitter’ will not only show you a link to NASA’s official Twitter page, it will also show NASA’s most recent Tweets.

In another example cited by Google, if you search for Malcolm X, and today is Malcolm X’s birthday, you would find popular-on-twitter results with a link to ‘more tweets for Malcolm X.’

The feature was already available for mobile browsers and on the Google app for both iOS and Android devices.

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