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"Beyond talking about how fast it was growing, one of the hottest topics surrounding Twitter in 2009 was \u201Chow does it make money?\u201D   Perhaps that was the wrong question to be asking, though, because as it turns out, Twitter already makes money.\nAccording 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.However, it\u2019s still unclear whether those deals will provide Twitter with an ongoing revenue stream (or were mostly upfront payments), and thus, while we can say \u201CTwitter is profitable\u201D for 2009, the long-term \u201CHow does it make money?\u201D question still seems to be valid.  \nAlong those lines, Twitter recently started experimenting with features for big businesses, which we took an early look at last week.  Much like Twitter search was born out of the startup Summize, it appears that many of Twitter\u2019s business features are born out of looking at what some other third-party apps (like CoTweet) have been able to do successfully.  \nIn 2010, we\u2019ll see whether or not those, combined with rumored advertising features, will move Twitter from hot startup to sustainable business."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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