John Hasson

If you use twitter you know it has high PR and bots/spammers have been trying different things lately.

I noticed on twitter that the links on my current is a dofollow link, while anything in the status column is nofollow.

interesting...

I checked the spammer’s pages and couldnt see any dofollow links but maybe there is some hidden page I don’t know about that shows dofollow.  One has to wonder, why every outgoing link on twitter is nofollow but one. Did they just miss it or is it intentional?  Are people exploiting it?-probably.

This is just a heads up, it will probably eventually become nofollow unless the twitter folk did it intentionally.

Edit: As far as I can tell you only see this dofollow link if you are logged in, but I am not 100% certain on that.

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I started using twitter at Affiliate Summit West 2008. But I didn’t really start using it till after that. I used it via SMS for a while (imagine having your cell beep every 3 minutes with a twitter update…). Then I moved to just web. Finally I got it to work via IM (the gtalk wouldn’t work with my google for domains account, but it did work with the fresh jabber account I made for it)..

So.. when I use twitter now, it is pretty slick. It more or less is like a chatroom for me. If I see someone I know talking to someone I don’t know I can follow them right from IM w/o even going to twitter’s site.

And somehow I have it setup so when I log out of IM it sends new messages via SMS, and when I log back in it turns SMS off automatically. (Maybe it just does that automatically )

So.. thats how I use twitter. I usually have it on, so a @johnhasson twitter will usually get my attention pretty quickly.

Tags: Advice, Affiliate Summit 2008, Twitter by John Hasson
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