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This could go quite wrong for Twitter. Twitter's current loyal and core userbase uses it to express a personal opinion, a random thought or an emotion, often pe

by nnain 12y ago

This could go quite wrong for Twitter. Twitter's current loyal and core userbase uses it to express a personal opinion, a random thought or an emotion, often peppered with slang words and abbreviations. If people start targeting the tweets for Google Searches, the network might become a hotchpotch of tweets optimized with SEO terms, which would be quite irritating for most Twitter and Google Search users.

wutbrodo 12y ago
This deal was already in place for years (until 2011). The importance/usage of Twitter relative to Google was even lower then, and yet we didn't see this happen on any sort of meaningful scale.
- nnain 12y ago
  Ok, I didn't know that. But you would agree that the social networking scene has changed a lot since 2011. Facebook was so much more personal and fun back then. I was just brooding over the fact that the Jordan pilot was burnt alive by IS two days back and not a single post about the incident showed up on my feed (I've 400 friends on fb). And I used to be quite vocal about such things 2-3 years back, but even I've lost interest in posting anything emotional now. Social networks have just become tools for marketeers and a personalized newsletter for me, with the occasional comments and likes I would make on a friend's post.
  - wutbrodo 12y ago
    Totally agree. A simple "X didn't happen before so it won't happen now" is missing the fact that the environment has massively changed with respect to usage and influence of Twitter and Google. As I said though, this change has been in _favor_ of Twitter if anything (which stands to reason, since Google was already a leviathan by then and Twitter was still quite young). So if anything one would expect the push to sacrifice Twitter's quality for SEO on Google to be less.
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seizethecheese 12y ago
I think this is an interesting point. However, I don,t foresee a problem given that Twitter is already full of spam bots. This is naturally solved Twitter by people unfollowing obnoxious accounts.

by nnain 12y ago

wutbrodo 12y ago

This deal was already in place for years (until 2011). The importance/usage of Twitter relative to Google was even lower then, and yet we didn't see this happen on any sort of meaningful scale.

nnain 12y ago
Ok, I didn't know that. But you would agree that the social networking scene has changed a lot since 2011. Facebook was so much more personal and fun back then. I was just brooding over the fact that the Jordan pilot was burnt alive by IS two days back and not a single post about the incident showed up on my feed (I've 400 friends on fb). And I used to be quite vocal about such things 2-3 years back, but even I've lost interest in posting anything emotional now. Social networks have just become tools for marketeers and a personalized newsletter for me, with the occasional comments and likes I would make on a friend's post.
- wutbrodo 12y ago
  Totally agree. A simple "X didn't happen before so it won't happen now" is missing the fact that the environment has massively changed with respect to usage and influence of Twitter and Google. As I said though, this change has been in _favor_ of Twitter if anything (which stands to reason, since Google was already a leviathan by then and Twitter was still quite young). So if anything one would expect the push to sacrifice Twitter's quality for SEO on Google to be less.

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seizethecheese 12y ago

I think this is an interesting point. However, I don,t foresee a problem given that Twitter is already full of spam bots. This is naturally solved Twitter by people unfollowing obnoxious accounts.