Did Google coerce Twitter to remove and nofollow links?
In an attempt to remove potential benefits users can get from their social media profiles, Twitter.com joined the crowd of companies providing services, but not allowing their users to obtain any gains, like a simple dofollow link back to their sites, for their content creation efforts. Twitter recently removed all possibilities to pass link juice in the ‘About’ section by removing linking capabilities from the ‘Bio’ field. Several days ago I realized that the link in the ‘Web’ section of my Twitter profile was nofollowed; hence I decided to experiment with positioning the link in a different section. I found out that by not entering my URL http://www.SpanishSEO.org/ in the ‘Web’ field, and instead, adding it to the body of the text, I will be capturing a dofollow link back to this site as seen on the image to the left. But all that came to a sudden end today! Even though the link to this site and to my other Twitter account (for Spanish speakers) still appear in the ‘Bio’ section, the