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To us, this seems to be just the beginning of a major move by Twitter to reach out and find new users, wherever they may be. Twitter was able to grow at a rapid clip for the first half of this year, but since then has hit a growth ceiling that it’s been unable to solve. It makes sense to give people the ability to sign up through other popular websites and apps. While Citysearch is the only one using the Sign-Up API currently, they certainly won’t be a last.

Google will capture the chatter about it in real-time from sources such as Twitter, Yahoo Answers, news media and Facebook. The inclusion of Facebook () in this list of real-time sources is one of the most important aspects of today’s announcements, and it is something that could have major implications for Twitter and its ambitions to become the world’s water cooler. In fact, Facebook held back the opportunity to deal a heavy hit to its microblogging rival. But why?