Twitter Reportedly Makes a Profit in 2009
Bloomberg is reporting that Twitter is now profitable after providing data for Google's and Microsoft Bing's real time search engines.
An agreement that made Twitter's messages searchable on Google's site will generate about $15 million, said the people, who asked to remain anonymous because the terms aren’t public. A similar deal with Microsoft's Bing search engine will earn Twitter about $10 million.$25 million in revenues leaves Twitter well short of its $1 billion evaluation but at least it shows the company is able to generate some revenues.
The multiyear agreements will allow Twitter to make a small profit in 2009, said the people, who estimate that its operating costs are about $20 million to $25 million a year. The San Francisco-based company, which started in 2006, has about 105 employees, according to its Web site.
Posted on December 21, 2009
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Yahoo Testing Real-time Search With One Riot
All the main search engine are launches real-time search these days to compete with Twitter. TechCrunch reports that Yahoo has chosen OneRiot as its real-time search partner. Yahoo says they will use it for some search results and are currently testing it.
Real-time search means different things to different people. For Yahoo!, we think of real-time search in terms of providing the most relevant, fresh information to people every time.OneRiot is a useful tool for searching Twitter. It helps you pull out the most relevant content without getting all the spam and retweets. Search engines need to add filters if they want to improve real-time search over what Twitter's own search engine provides.
Yahoo! Search is currently testing a new search shortcut that will include real-time results at the top of the search results page. The shortcut will only appear on certain queries that will be determined by Yahoo. This is a test designed to discover if showing such content is useful to people using Yahoo! Search. Yahoo! is focused on creating the most innovative, easy-to-use and valuable search experience for people, and after this test we will carefully evaluate whether we should integrate such results for everyone using Yahoo! Search
Posted on November 14, 2009
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Internet News Twitter
We have launched a twitter profile which provides Internet news. Twitter is a microblogging service and communication tool that allows you to post short 140 character updates. To get our updates on Twitter you need to join Twitter and then follow our Twitter profile.
You can keep up with news about Twitter by reading BloggersBlog.com's Twitter news section or by following the BloggersBlog.com Twitter. Examples of some of the other news Twitters available include business news, celebrity gossip, sports news, tech gadgets, jobs, green news, video game news, health news, tech news, fashion news, politics and virtual worlds.
Posted on April 17, 2007
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