Here is why Twitter purchased 900 patents from IBM.

Until now Twitter is not profitable in terms of revenues. Its overall expenditures swallow its revenues; meaning that, this micro-blogging company, aiming to become a Facebook clone, in terms of content architecture, needs relevant technologies to harness the potentiality of its data. Twitter generates a vast amount of data, but struggles to transform this wealth into cash. By purchasing about 900 patents from IBM, the message is clear: IBM helps us generate solid revenues with your analytic

and Big data technologies.  

This also means that, as from now, Twitter has freedom of action to innovate on behalf of all those who use its service.

At IBM, this new milestone illustrates the value of patented IBM inventions and can demonstrate the IBM commitment to licensing access to their broad patent portfolio.