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Without access to the firehose, Google cannot derive any value from tweets, but without Google's help, there's a good change that Twitter can improve their own real-time search. So I would say that Twitter is in the stronger negotiating position here, especially since with Buzz and Google+, Google is trying to create its own firehose of user-created realtime content.



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