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I don't understand how this is a good deal for Twitter, Stackoverflow and any website that generates content and makes money using ads

Google generates revenue via ads, the same business you are in. And Google has a huge advantage. Embedding content into their search stream makes Google better, and stickier.

If Twitter is giving away it's content to Google, it's probably not at the premium it could charge for ads on it's marketplace but at huge discount via an API

This doesn't fair well for any website in this category. Google has found a way to compete with you for page views

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I think this may be a play to make Twitter more valuable for SEO. Google is relying more and more on third party social. This may be an attempt to make marketers more excited about buying promoted posts etc.

If it wasn't a good deal, Twitter wouldn't be doing it. They were in the position of power and chose to trade it for something.

Twitters growth hasn't been the greatest over the past little while, improving their discoverability and brand power is bound to help them in the future. And there's always the potential for promoted tweets to show up in Google searches, which in turn helps twitter sell more ads.

>If it wasn't a good deal, Twitter wouldn't be doing it.

People make bad deals all the time. Surely the issue isn't that more people need to discover Twitter, but that they have to make more money from those who are already on it?

But since marketeers basically consider "reach" to be the most significant measure of utility the two points are necessarily in conflict. Bottom line could be that if you have more reach, your paid services are more valuable.

This is most likely to fuel user growth (which has been slowing down).

They can always renegotiate at some point down the line.

I think this is the answer. Longer term, it's probably not something that is in Twitter's interests, but it's not a bad thing to revisit whenever they need to expose Twitter to Google's firehose to grow their own userbase.

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