Let the battle to index Twitter begin.

Twitter, the microblogging platform that's quickly reshaping how the world thinks about communicating, announced this week in two separate blog posts (@google Nice and Bing Goes the Dynamite) that they've finished negotiating deals with both Microsoft and Google to index Twitter's massive body of status updates. It's going to be a monumental task for either Bing or Google - but whoever comes out on top stands to reap significant rewards in terms of gaining access to information in real-time, access that both search engines are...