I gave an answer about Twitter where I said that we treat Twitter pages just like regular pages. It’s the exact same thing; we don’t look at the number of followers you have on Twitter; we look at the number of links that you have to your profile, or to your specific tweets.
If we have a lot of PageRank or a lot of links to one particular, really interesting status message, that one might be more interesting or more likely to show up in our search results.
We don’t look at how many followers you have or anything like that. We’ve certainly seen that followers can be gained pretty easily on a lot of different sites, so what we find tends to be backlinks, and the reputation of those backlinks is the way we score how reputable a page is on Twitter, just like on any other site across the web.
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- How accurate is Google’s backlink check (link:…)? Are all nofollow backlinks filtered out or why does Yahoo/MSN show quite more backlink results?
