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	<title>Comments on: Twitter added nofollow to &#8220;www.&#8221; links in their Bio field</title>
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		<title>By: m</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/#comment-403817</link>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m guessing the link in the bio thing doesn&#039;t work any more? It doesn&#039;t seem to for me...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m guessing the link in the bio thing doesn&#8217;t work any more? It doesn&#8217;t seem to for me&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/#comment-334577</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 17:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t see what the whining about spammers on Twitter is all about.  If you want followers, you&#039;re going to get spammers, &lt;b&gt;but&lt;/b&gt;, you don&#039;t have to follow everybody.  Go through the list you&#039;re following, do some research and unfollow the ones that post links all the time and while you&#039;re at it you might delete the ones that post every minute too. I use some of the tools that are available to increase my followers but I also look at the list of whom I am following. I weed out the ones that post in a language I don&#039;t understand and I also get rid of the ones that F this an WTF that in every other post.  I don&#039;t hear anyone complaining about those people.  They just quietly unfollow them.
I find when I look at the followers lists of spammers that they have thousands.  I&#039;ve even done a search for the links that they spam and found that some of them have over 10 accounts and every account has 2000 or more followers in them.  My conclusion is that the ones who want this information will follow these people and the ones who don&#039;t should unfollow these marketers and stop complaining about spammers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t see what the whining about spammers on Twitter is all about.  If you want followers, you&#8217;re going to get spammers, <b>but</b>, you don&#8217;t have to follow everybody.  Go through the list you&#8217;re following, do some research and unfollow the ones that post links all the time and while you&#8217;re at it you might delete the ones that post every minute too. I use some of the tools that are available to increase my followers but I also look at the list of whom I am following. I weed out the ones that post in a language I don&#8217;t understand and I also get rid of the ones that F this an WTF that in every other post.  I don&#8217;t hear anyone complaining about those people.  They just quietly unfollow them.<br />
I find when I look at the followers lists of spammers that they have thousands.  I&#8217;ve even done a search for the links that they spam and found that some of them have over 10 accounts and every account has 2000 or more followers in them.  My conclusion is that the ones who want this information will follow these people and the ones who don&#8217;t should unfollow these marketers and stop complaining about spammers.</p>
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		<title>By: Lance Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/#comment-243671</link>
		<dc:creator>Lance Brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is good info. I wanted to know if the tweet links were no follow because I never see twitter results in google searches. Thanks. Please keep us posted if things change.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is good info. I wanted to know if the tweet links were no follow because I never see twitter results in google searches. Thanks. Please keep us posted if things change.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob Monie</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/#comment-134568</link>
		<dc:creator>Bob Monie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Geeez, iv never seen so much whingin, whining, sking and ranting in my life.

I do SEO full time and i dont see what all the fuss is about.

If you lost your one link from twitter, dont waste your time here crying about it, go out and find another backlink of equal value without nofollow. Im sure it would take no time at all.

Twitter is used for building relationships and trust, selling yourself to build your buiness. All by providing up to the minute news about yourself. If you are using it striktly for backlinks your deciving your followers.

A hyperlink was origionally created to help visitors navigate from a website to other locations on the web. This makes your bio link still very valuable.

Spamming is so much hard work and a waste of time and i pitty the losers that do it. You will find spammers are mostly always newbies that dont know any better and are brainwashed buy these salesletters promising instant riches for little to no work and just an easy payment of $29. Its like the war against drugs, its not the users ya have to track down and punish, its the dealers and supplyers. Track down the ones selling the spamming software and shut them down.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Geeez, iv never seen so much whingin, whining, sking and ranting in my life.</p>
<p>I do SEO full time and i dont see what all the fuss is about.</p>
<p>If you lost your one link from twitter, dont waste your time here crying about it, go out and find another backlink of equal value without nofollow. Im sure it would take no time at all.</p>
<p>Twitter is used for building relationships and trust, selling yourself to build your buiness. All by providing up to the minute news about yourself. If you are using it striktly for backlinks your deciving your followers.</p>
<p>A hyperlink was origionally created to help visitors navigate from a website to other locations on the web. This makes your bio link still very valuable.</p>
<p>Spamming is so much hard work and a waste of time and i pitty the losers that do it. You will find spammers are mostly always newbies that dont know any better and are brainwashed buy these salesletters promising instant riches for little to no work and just an easy payment of $29. Its like the war against drugs, its not the users ya have to track down and punish, its the dealers and supplyers. Track down the ones selling the spamming software and shut them down.</p>
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		<title>By: IncrediBILL</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/#comment-133993</link>
		<dc:creator>IncrediBILL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Dave - if I told anyone anything, name the blog and name the person, who it is I supposedly told something to, which would require knowing something to tell in the first place, just finish your stupid story and get it over with.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Dave &#8211; if I told anyone anything, name the blog and name the person, who it is I supposedly told something to, which would require knowing something to tell in the first place, just finish your stupid story and get it over with.</p>
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		<title>By: IncrediBILL</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/#comment-133992</link>
		<dc:creator>IncrediBILL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK, I never did anything Dave&#039;s accusing me of because I would have to know Dave had kids to know their names wouldn&#039;t I?

Dave, it&#039;s obvious you&#039;re obsessed with me but I&#039;m already taken with other stalkers that are much more inventive than this.

BTW, it was amusing when you started, but just keep running your slanderous fat mouth making false accusations and see what happens because I&#039;m running low on tolerance about now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, I never did anything Dave&#8217;s accusing me of because I would have to know Dave had kids to know their names wouldn&#8217;t I?</p>
<p>Dave, it&#8217;s obvious you&#8217;re obsessed with me but I&#8217;m already taken with other stalkers that are much more inventive than this.</p>
<p>BTW, it was amusing when you started, but just keep running your slanderous fat mouth making false accusations and see what happens because I&#8217;m running low on tolerance about now.</p>
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		<title>By: Multi-Worded Adam</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/#comment-133985</link>
		<dc:creator>Multi-Worded Adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Man, you can&#039;t read anything, can you?

I never said Bill was justified...IF he did it.  What I said was that there&#039;s next to no way that you can determine that Bill specifically did it when your information is so easily accessible that almost anyone with a bit of Internet savvy and an axe to grind could do it.  Blackhats exploit things for a living...you don&#039;t think they could use some detective/research skills to find out what at least 3 of us on here already know?  Theoretically, it could have been either myself or Doug too.  We both know the same information (it wasn&#039;t either one of us, but the point&#039;s still there).  

That&#039;s why I don&#039;t believe Bill did anything...he wouldn&#039;t have to.  Could he have done something like that?  Yeah...but Bill would take more satisfaction out of doing it publicly himself than he would passing a note in class (at least such is my limited understanding of Bill&#039;s M.O.)  He calls out spammers.  He calls out botnets.  He calls out just about everything else.  You don&#039;t think he&#039;d call you out?

Here&#039;s what I see (being unbiased and objective):

1)  Publicly available information.
2)  No proof whatsoever on your end (just a series of accusations).  I don&#039;t even know what blog you&#039;re talking about.
3)  A guy who has managed to piss off almost everyone in sight.
4)  A guy who&#039;s also pissed off because someone posted information publicly and needs to find out who did it, or at the very least have a scapegoat to point the finger at.

There is no way that I can see that you can accuse Bill of anything when there are a number of other possibilities as to what happened...IF it even happened (and we still haven&#039;t even seen the blog in question yet).

No proof + wild accusation + evidence that suggests a contrary position + evidence that suggests other possibilities = flaw in the story.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Man, you can&#8217;t read anything, can you?</p>
<p>I never said Bill was justified&#8230;IF he did it.  What I said was that there&#8217;s next to no way that you can determine that Bill specifically did it when your information is so easily accessible that almost anyone with a bit of Internet savvy and an axe to grind could do it.  Blackhats exploit things for a living&#8230;you don&#8217;t think they could use some detective/research skills to find out what at least 3 of us on here already know?  Theoretically, it could have been either myself or Doug too.  We both know the same information (it wasn&#8217;t either one of us, but the point&#8217;s still there).  </p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t believe Bill did anything&#8230;he wouldn&#8217;t have to.  Could he have done something like that?  Yeah&#8230;but Bill would take more satisfaction out of doing it publicly himself than he would passing a note in class (at least such is my limited understanding of Bill&#8217;s M.O.)  He calls out spammers.  He calls out botnets.  He calls out just about everything else.  You don&#8217;t think he&#8217;d call you out?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I see (being unbiased and objective):</p>
<p>1)  Publicly available information.<br />
2)  No proof whatsoever on your end (just a series of accusations).  I don&#8217;t even know what blog you&#8217;re talking about.<br />
3)  A guy who has managed to piss off almost everyone in sight.<br />
4)  A guy who&#8217;s also pissed off because someone posted information publicly and needs to find out who did it, or at the very least have a scapegoat to point the finger at.</p>
<p>There is no way that I can see that you can accuse Bill of anything when there are a number of other possibilities as to what happened&#8230;IF it even happened (and we still haven&#8217;t even seen the blog in question yet).</p>
<p>No proof + wild accusation + evidence that suggests a contrary position + evidence that suggests other possibilities = flaw in the story.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave (original)</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/#comment-133949</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave (original)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Viewing personal information is one thing. Handing it over (plus the names of my wife and kids) to a blackhat (who subsequently posted it on their blog) which I was debating with *anonymously* is another.

RE: Did you not think someone would retaliate

I would expect as much from a blackhat, but not a so called whitehat who is fighting the same cause.

I don&#039;t expect Bills lap dog to understand. Heck, it&#039;s easy to tell who&#039;s side you took after your very 1st post on the matter. Even now, you are essentially saying Bill is justified in his low life methods.

You are simply too young and bias to understand. Stand for something else you fall for everything.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Viewing personal information is one thing. Handing it over (plus the names of my wife and kids) to a blackhat (who subsequently posted it on their blog) which I was debating with *anonymously* is another.</p>
<p>RE: Did you not think someone would retaliate</p>
<p>I would expect as much from a blackhat, but not a so called whitehat who is fighting the same cause.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t expect Bills lap dog to understand. Heck, it&#8217;s easy to tell who&#8217;s side you took after your very 1st post on the matter. Even now, you are essentially saying Bill is justified in his low life methods.</p>
<p>You are simply too young and bias to understand. Stand for something else you fall for everything.</p>
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		<title>By: Multi-Worded Adam</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/twitter-added-nofollow-to-www-links-in-their-bio-field/#comment-133943</link>
		<dc:creator>Multi-Worded Adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay...let&#039;s assume for a minute that what you just said is true (and that seems more conjectural than anything).  Do you think pulling your personal details from Doug&#039;s forum would stop anyone who already knew the information?  Hell, I could tell you the two colours on the backboard on your neighbour&#039;s basketball net (the one approx. 6 doors down) if I wanted to.  That&#039;s just silly.

Your personal information is in the WHOIS of your domain name, which can be crosschecked with (your country here) White Pages and pretty well anyone who wanted to could find out where you lived and do anything they wanted to you.  You&#039;ve got your wife&#039;s name on your site.  You&#039;ve done interviews where you&#039;ve mentioned your daughters.  And you&#039;ve managed to systematically alienate just about everyone you&#039;ve come into contact with, both black and white hat.  You&#039;ve almost got as many people pissed off with you as Dubya.  Did you not think someone would retaliate?  

And do you think that Bill (if it is true, and I seriously doubt that) would be the only one who would want to screw with you based on the way you&#039;ve been acting over the past year?  You&#039;re lucky you&#039;re in an area most people wouldn&#039;t ever dream about going to, or someone probably would have done something a lot more drastic by now.  You&#039;re not only out in left field by now, but you&#039;re somewhere up past the cheap seats on the roof.

Besides, how do you know Bill passed anything to anyone?  I could say Bill passed me your personal information, and you haven&#039;t got any way of knowing whether it is or isn&#039;t true (it&#039;s not...despite your incredibly ridiculous lap dog remarks, I do think for myself and just happen to agree with Bill much of the time).  

In other words, you should be protecting your own interests.  Get a P.O. box.  Don&#039;t tell the world who your family is (I wouldn&#039;t dare tell anyone on here who my girlfriend is for her safety if no one else&#039;s).  And get a little more street smart.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay&#8230;let&#8217;s assume for a minute that what you just said is true (and that seems more conjectural than anything).  Do you think pulling your personal details from Doug&#8217;s forum would stop anyone who already knew the information?  Hell, I could tell you the two colours on the backboard on your neighbour&#8217;s basketball net (the one approx. 6 doors down) if I wanted to.  That&#8217;s just silly.</p>
<p>Your personal information is in the WHOIS of your domain name, which can be crosschecked with (your country here) White Pages and pretty well anyone who wanted to could find out where you lived and do anything they wanted to you.  You&#8217;ve got your wife&#8217;s name on your site.  You&#8217;ve done interviews where you&#8217;ve mentioned your daughters.  And you&#8217;ve managed to systematically alienate just about everyone you&#8217;ve come into contact with, both black and white hat.  You&#8217;ve almost got as many people pissed off with you as Dubya.  Did you not think someone would retaliate?  </p>
<p>And do you think that Bill (if it is true, and I seriously doubt that) would be the only one who would want to screw with you based on the way you&#8217;ve been acting over the past year?  You&#8217;re lucky you&#8217;re in an area most people wouldn&#8217;t ever dream about going to, or someone probably would have done something a lot more drastic by now.  You&#8217;re not only out in left field by now, but you&#8217;re somewhere up past the cheap seats on the roof.</p>
<p>Besides, how do you know Bill passed anything to anyone?  I could say Bill passed me your personal information, and you haven&#8217;t got any way of knowing whether it is or isn&#8217;t true (it&#8217;s not&#8230;despite your incredibly ridiculous lap dog remarks, I do think for myself and just happen to agree with Bill much of the time).  </p>
<p>In other words, you should be protecting your own interests.  Get a P.O. box.  Don&#8217;t tell the world who your family is (I wouldn&#8217;t dare tell anyone on here who my girlfriend is for her safety if no one else&#8217;s).  And get a little more street smart.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave (original)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave (original)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The guy tells it like it is...&lt;/blockquote&gt;You got that right. He told a person (blackhat IMO) my personal details when I was posting on the persons blog anonymously. The person then posted my personal details on their Blog.

Doug, Bill is NOT trustworthy. Believe it or not, I suspect the latter in your case though. 

This is WHY I left your forum and removed any personal details. Bill is NOT trustworthy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The guy tells it like it is&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>You got that right. He told a person (blackhat IMO) my personal details when I was posting on the persons blog anonymously. The person then posted my personal details on their Blog.</p>
<p>Doug, Bill is NOT trustworthy. Believe it or not, I suspect the latter in your case though. </p>
<p>This is WHY I left your forum and removed any personal details. Bill is NOT trustworthy.</p>
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