Yeah. This was big, public news. Last year within a week, Bing + Google both paid Twitter millions of dollars for "firehose" access.
The reason I remember it pretty well is 1) Lots of people made "...finally making money" jokes, and 2) Both Bing and Google made separate realtime URLs shortly after.
The reason I remember it pretty well is 1) Lots of people made "...finally making money" jokes, and 2) Both Bing and Google made separate realtime URLs shortly after.