Recently crowned most influential Twitter user Pete Cashmore believes that Twitter has been saved by its real-time search deals with Google and Microsoft Bing. "It did look a bit hairy for Twitter this year," Mashable founder Cashmore told UK newspaper The Telegraph.
"They've had this flat period over the last few months. Twitter just isn't good at user retention. But the Google deal has come along, and I think that is pretty much their salvation."
"It's given them a revenue stream of what is rumoured to be millions of dollars a month. And it gives them a traffic 'hosepipe' that means every time you search for something that's very 'now' on Google, you're getting results from Twitter. Google's real-time search is essentially Twitter."
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"They've had this flat period over the last few months. Twitter just isn't good at user retention. But the Google deal has come along, and I think that is pretty much their salvation."
"It's given them a revenue stream of what is rumoured to be millions of dollars a month. And it gives them a traffic 'hosepipe' that means every time you search for something that's very 'now' on Google, you're getting results from Twitter. Google's real-time search is essentially Twitter."
More: http://pcworld.com/article/185140/
