John Honeck

Earlier today Dave Naylor outed the little known twitter fact that you can get a non-nofollowed link by adding a web address in your “One Line Bio” of your profile.

Like:

For a resulting profile page like this:

It’s not going to last long as internet officer on-the-spot Matt Cutts has spotted it and taken action to stop the flow of link juice to people:

Since Matt is so interested in helping out twitter he may want to mention that some of their “capacity” issues may be due to Google crawling the non-canonical versions of URLs that exist throughout the site.

Notice the same page is indexed twice in Google. One as twitter/johnweb and as twitter/JohnWeb, same content, same spelling, just different cases used.

I guess we’ll see who twitter is more interested in pleasing, it’s users by reducing the server load with a simple url canonicalization fix or Google with their cure-all rel=”nofollow”, by which is fixed first.