‘Twitter to Sell Tweets’ to Google & Microsoft (Bing)?
Twitter Figures Out A Way To Make Money?
Has Twitter finally figured out a way to monetize its real time data generated by over 50 million monthly users? If we are to believe Kara Swisher of All Things Digital then
“Twitter is in advanced talks with Microsoft and Google separately about striking data-mining deals, in which the companies would license a full feed from the microblogging service that could then be integrated into the results of their competing search engines.”
But this is not enough. What really intrigues me is this
“Twitter is, instead, seeking to create a large open platform, which many could plug into, from search engines to marketers to publishers to developers.”
Monetizing? Twitter will charge huge sums of money for these data feeds + A portion of revenue made by the search engine from these search results.
Back in July, Bing did something similar by integrating tweets (of selected Twitter users) into its search results and last week even Google updated its options to make it more real time.
Recently Twitter raised $100 million from investments at a valuation of 1 billion. Twitter still does not generate any sizable revenue thought it did try out a few monetizing methods earlier.
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Story Broken by : All Things Digital (WSJ) : Twitter Talking Separately to Microsoft and Google About Big Data-Mining Deals by Kara Swisher
Cheers…! Thumbs Up
CNET News: Twitter on the verge of big search deals? by Caroline McCarthy
Search Engine Journal: Is Twitter Working a Deal with Google and Microsoft? by Arnold Zafra
Mashable!: Twitter’s New Rumored Business: Improving Google and Microsoft’s Search Engines by Adam Ostrow
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Guardian: Twitter’s latest struggle leaves users confounded by Bobbie Johnson
ReadWriteWeb: Two Reasons Why Twitter May Not Be Worth So Much to Google and Microsoft After All by Marshall Kirkpatrick
Gawker: Selling Your Tweets to the Enemy by Ryan Tate
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Hey great going guys… this follow-up break up is a good concept. You people are really managing news for me. thanks!
and yeah this Twitter deal ofcourse could be big for them. It could be financially as good as an IPO. Nice move ther tweety!
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )
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thanks for the feed back Steve
you right, this could be a big deal for Twitter
If that is the case, I want my cut. For every tweet I wrote they sell, I want 99%.
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )
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+1.