Will Twitter soon be selling real-time information to search engines?
According to a Wall Street Journal reporter, Twitter is said to be in talks with Google and Microsoft to make its users' status updates available to their search engines in real time.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Kara Swisher has learned that Twitter is negotiating with Google and Microsoft to be paid by the search engine providers for its real-time information. According to the report, Twitter wants to license its users' status updates to the search engines as a complete feed. In return, Twitter could receive a one-off payment in the millions and share in the revenue from the corresponding search results. Negotiations with the two companies are running independently. According to Swisher, it is unclear whether talks are also being held with other providers such as Yahoo. Twitter does not want to conclude an exclusive agreement under any circumstances. However, it remains to be seen whether agreements will be reached at all.
