Twitter in Talks with Google, Microsoft for Data-Mining Deals

October 8th, 2009 admin

Twitter is in talks with Google and Microsoft about licensing its tweets for real-time inclusion in search engines. Such deals could be worth millions. All Things Digital (via Silicon Alley Insider ) has the scoop: . ..according to sources familiar with the situation–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. Sources said a number of scenarios are being discussed to compensate Twitter for its huge and potentially valuable trove of real-time and content-sharing information, generated from the data stream of billions of tweets from its 54 million monthly users. …doing these kinds of data deals with …


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