Bill Gates has now joined Twitter and within 48 hours has rocketed to 267,000 followers and has been added to 8,500 lists. Good stats Bill. You can follow the Microsoft founder here and please note that his account does bare the “Verified” badge so this is the real deal people.

Google have recently announced that they have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in Google’s search results.
Read more at the official Google blog.

It has been reported that Amazon have not been paying their affiliates when sales are refereed from Twitter or Facebook. According to the Amazon terms of service a sales has to be refereed from “your site” and not a third party, which it classes Twitter and Facebook as.
The only way around this is to twitter details of the deal or offer to a landing page on your site and ensure your affiliate link are there.
Please feel free to comment if you have any experience of this happening.

Over at Google they have many teams covering a whole raft of subjects including travel, retails and tech to name a few. Each dedicated team has recently launched its very own Twitter service to keep you informed of news and information from your relevant sector. The links can be found below as well as a bunch of other useful Twitter accounts from Google. Feel free to post anymore you know of.

Travel
http://twitter.com/googletravel
Tech
http://twitter.com/googletech
Auto
http://twitter.com/googleauto
Media & Entertainment
http://twitter.com/googlemande
Finance
http://twitter.com/googlefinsvcs
Retail
http://twitter.com/googleretail
Creative
http://twitter.com/CreativeSandbox
Google Offical
http://twitter.com/google
Mobile Apps
http://twitter.com/googlemobileapp
Google Books
http://twitter.com/googlebooks
Ad Manager
http://twitter.com/googleadmanager
Google OS
http://twitter.com/googleos
Travel
Tech
Auto
Media & Entertainment
Finance
Retail
Creative
Google Official
Mobile Apps
Google Books
Ad Manager
Google OS