article_snippet: Twitter is reportedly looking at ways to make money by selling people's tweets to other companies.
article_snippet: These firms, known as 'data miners', would use the content in the tweets to personalise services from advertisers and marketers online, as well as in the real world.
article_snippet: Twitter is reportedly looking at ways to make money by selling people's tweets to companies.
article_snippet: You bring your data to us and us will ensure that your customers, if your customers exist on Twitter - we can provide advertisements to advertisements,' explained the 48-year-old. '
article_snippet: Plus, unless tweets are protected, tweets can be searched for and viewed easily already.
article_snippet: As a result there are firms that have developed tweets own mining software to extract information from tweets.
article_snippet: By comparison, Twitter has 288 million monthly active users and figures quoted by The Guardian's Juliette Garside said sales of data on the site amount to around $70 million (£47 million) in revenue each year.
highlights_snippet: Twitter is said to be looking at ways to make money by selling tweets .
  