Techcrunch reports that Twitter has struck deals with both Microsoft Bing and Google search to help integrate real time results into their engines. They've been partially indexing what they can already, but Twitter hasn't given them full access to the real-time stream. Until now.
Looks like they may have found a revenue stream. I always thought an ad model wouldn't work with Twitter, and that some type of licensing deal would be their best bet, whether it be via charging users, creating professional accounts, some type of rev-share with app developers, etc.
I wasn't exactly expecting them to sell the data to the major search engines - thought they might give it a go building their own engine actually, but I guess that's a less likely scenario now. Why not just take an $undisclosedsum and let the Google and Microsoft PhDs work it out instead?
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