Yahoo! adds tweets to online news pages

Yahoo! on Thursday began spicing up its online news pages with real-time comments fired off at the globally popular messaging service Twitter.

Yahoo! on Thursday began spicing up its online news pages with real-time comments fired off at the globally popular messaging service Twitter.

'Tweets have become an important information source for many of our users, so we are thrilled to announce our partnership with Twitter to bring tweets directly into the Yahoo! newsfeed,' Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! chief executive, said in a blog post.

'Updates direct from politicians, celebrities, media outlets, and other publishers have become an important source of real-time news and information.'