A Yuletide Miracle: Twitter Is Profitable For 2009

Eat that, Web 2.0 naysayers: Twitter is profitable in 2009, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. Twitter is still at least a few months away from integrating advertising, which could be its real moneymaker further down the road. The key to Twitter’s surprise yearend profitability? Search deals with Google and Bing, which total about $25 million.