The Twitterverse was decidedly more positive than negative on the Microsoft/Yahoo! search deal, with 14% citing the ongoing battle with Google, and 13% calling it some variant of a great match. Only 8% of tweets were neutral or negative on the announcement.

The largest single share of the Tweet volume (47%) was the ripple of the news itself as it proliferated through the network.

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