Over the past few weeks, the number of people following me on Twitter has spiked.
It’s flattering, although it’s amazing how many new followers are involved in the SEO business. Another interesting group are people who have had their accounts suspended by Twitter.
From doing a little research, many of these accounts have been suspended because Twitter has determined them to be spam/spammers.
Here’s a Twitter blog post that explains what they’re doing, including the use of an improved admin tool and the hiring of a full-time employee to control spam.
As to why spammers have embraced Twitter, Structured Thought has a detailed post explaining that it’s all about index and how Google crawls the Web. For spammers, the more people they follow, the more popular their Twitter page.
The largest search engine on the Internet is Google. Google uses webcrawling robots both to build its database, and help with developing rankings for pages. The best way to have your page increase its page rank is to get it linked from a lot of different places.
Each time the Google crawler comes across a link to your page, one part of your page rank increases. As the page rank goes up, the higher your page shows up in search results of topics related to your content.
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Over the past few weeks, the number of people following me on Twitter has spiked.
It’s flattering, although it’s amazing how many new followers are involved in the SEO business. Another interesting group are people who have had their accounts suspended by Twitter.
From doing a little research, many of these accounts have been suspended because Twitter has determined them to be spam/spammers.
Here’s a Twitter blog post that explains what they’re doing, including the use of an improved admin tool and the hiring of a full-time employee to control spam.
As to why spammers have embraced Twitter, Structured Thought has a detailed post explaining that it’s all about index and how Google crawls the Web. For spammers, the more people they follow, the more popular their Twitter page.
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