How rel=nofollow Works

Re:How rel=nofollow Works by latch on Thursday January 12, 2012 @09:58AM (#3456499)

What would happen if twitter removed rel="nofollow"? Couldn't that open the possibility for more spam on twitter? I tend to agree with Google here, but maybe when it comes to social recommendation, Twitter could be recognized as special and specific algorithms could be written to figure out the worth of a recommendation.

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Re:How rel=nofollow Works by sjs382 on Thursday January 12, 2012 @11:04AM (#3456769)

I can't imagine more spam on Twitter.

In all seriousness htough, you can probably analyze the Twitter "social graph" to weed out a lot of spam.

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Re:How rel=nofollow Works by thadwoodman on Thursday January 12, 2012 @11:14AM (#3456802)

I don't think anyone wants to remove the rel=nofollow attribute. I think people are confused why you can't have a social recommendation appear on a serp even if it is a rel=nofollow.

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