Twitter, which has millions of users around the world, is yet to find a way to make money directly from its user base

Now the buzz word is "Are u twitter?"..... "Dude D U  Tweet?". Twitter has millions of users and many big companies and celebrates tweet , even google do tweet... Now Twitter wants to Tweet too?

Now Twitter wants to Use it's vast user database for returns, yaa for money . All Things Digital technology blog reports that Twitter is in talks (advanced talks) with Google and Microsoft separately for data mining deals. Sources said a number of scenarios are being discussed to compensate Twitter for its huge and potentially valuable trove of real-time and content-sharing information, generated from the data stream of billions of tweets from its 54 million monthly users.

Twitter is said to be negotiating separately with Google and Microsoft about ways of building tweets into their search engines.So-called "real-time" search is viewed as the next battleground for internet search, with web users tapping in to services such as Twitter to find out the hot topics of conversation and latest news at any given moment.

The deal is suppossedto be  non-exclusive, and the parties involved are believed to be discussing a number of business models, including an upfront payment to Twitter, as well as revenue-sharing proposals. Actually twitter wants to be non-exclusive as it wants to be independent and non-partisan in the ongoing search battle between Google and Microsoft (Bing) .

And executives at Twitter, Microsoft and Google are tight lipped about the rumours.

"This could be a way for Twitter to make some money, and maybe more than just a little money," said Dan Olds, an analyst with the Gabriel Consulting Co. "It finally means a business model for Twitter, or at least the beginnings of one. And, of course, it means real revenue, which is very important, not just in licensing revenue from Google or Microsoft, but also in potentially getting a piece of the action on an ongoing basis. So there could be considerable upside here for Twitter."

Twitter, which has millions of users around the world, is yet to find a way to make money directly from its user base. A recent round of funding raised $100 million, valuing the company at around $1 billion. Twitter is believed to be considering carrying advertising on the site, or selling premium services to business customers, as a way of building up a revenue stream.

What people are now twittering about is what people are now interested in... so the engines could include tweets as indexed content, either through an option, a separate search page, or a search window.May be just like Google's Blog Search, News Search may be Google's tweet may come up soon.