Twitter in talks with Google, Microsoft?
InternetNews | at | by Mike
The great speculative sport that has attended Twitter's quest for a business model has taken a new turn, with an unconfirmed report that the white-hot microblogging service is in talks with tech heavyweights Microsoft and Google to broker separate data-mining agreements.
The idea is essentially a search tie-up. Under the proposed deals, Twitter would license the contents of its tweets to one or both of the firms to inform their search results, the blog AllThingsD reported, citing "sources familiar with the situation."
If true, the deals would find an alternative revenue source for Twitter from what analysts and the company itself have been projecting.