Twitter $25m for Live Search

Apparently Twitter made $25 million dollars from it’s live search deals with Microsoft and Google, $10m and $15 respectively. It is not known whether these are one off or ongoing payments. If they are one offs, Twitter could probably use some better negotiators.

More here but would recommend against taking to much notice of the headline, Twitter is Already Profitable. I think that there is no doubt that Twitter will be profitable but at this exact moment in time, probably not.

According to Bloomberg, the microblogging service will make a small profit this year off of $25 million in revenue, thanks to the search deals it completed with Google and Microsoft, which were reportedly worth $15 and $10 million, respectively. Those deals pay Twitter for access to tweets that are in turn included in real-time search results on each property.