Twitter Shares its ‘Firehose’ of Tweets with More Partners

After making the totality of public tweets available to search giants Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, Twitter is now cutting similar deals with smaller players. The partnerships generate revenue for Twitter, which also stands to benefit from new tools that could help users and companies manage the torrent of Twitter messages posted every day. Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup, CrowdEye and Chainn Search all have licensed the Twitter firehose of tweets, moves that Twitter expects will lead to a rush of innovation in the area of real-time search and discovery