Twitter Starves Search Engines
August 9, 2007Well, it was bound to happen some time or another…
Twitter decided that it would not be feeding the search engines anymore. I first noticed this yesterday and thought I was seeing things… but nope, looks like it’s here to stay. All links posted inside your tweets now have the dreaded “nofollow” tag embedded into them. Bye bye spider-food!
So I guess Twitter loves you having followers and loves you following others but it doesn’t want the search engines following you. One consolation: Your web URL in your profile can still be indexed. Small consolation.
For those of us that “twitter” because we love it… no skin off our nose!

