Skip to content

Comment on Twitter closing another massive $400M roundparent

Comments

I've seen nothing to indicate they've seen a profit since 2009

I know they were profitable (heard from Twitter employees during lunch) in very late 2009 right after Bing and Google decided to pay them tens of millions of dollars each month for access to realtime Tweet data. They only had ~150 or so employees at the time.

No idea if they're still profitable, and the Google deal has since been canceled.

Does Bing still pay for access to the data?

No clue, sorry.

I imagine Google didn't bother renewing because they're hoping to get interesting data from Google+ users.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.