Google took longer to display those results, and incorporates them into its main search results only when the topic has a real-time element.
Those who see a looming clash note that both companies are in the business of helping people to share information, and both have a real-time element to their services.That is true, but the services differ in two important respects.
Shooting in Real Time "I loved the near real-time element that happens once you get into the second act," the director Carl Franklin said, explaining his attraction to the screenplay that became "Out of Time," his new thriller starring Denzel Washington.
This new update pulls in a bit of Twitter's essence by allowing users to find and follow political candidates, celebrities and other profiles they might find interesting in an attempt to satisfy the missing real-time element.
"While You Were Away," which Twitter first previewed last fall, represents a significant departure from the real-time element that drew many users to the platform in the first place.
Unlike FriendFeed, which recently implemented its real-time element, OneRiot takes the "queue" approach, where it indicates at the top of the results that there are new results waiting to be viewed.
This is the only real-time element in the game.
Mr. Dorsey, a co-founder who became permanent chief executive of Twitter almost a year ago, has vowed to turn it around by making it easier to use and by emphasizing real-time elements that could make it more essential to people.
If the main screen included both a program and annotation, it would become a third product, one that has a tent-pole ability to gather large audiences and real-time elements of social media.
What used to real-time television and radio are now stored, but there are new real-time elements.
