Twitter adds nofollow to @names

Twitter adds nofollow to @names 1

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Malcolm Coles

I have a Firefox stylesheet that reveals which links are nofollow. And I'm fairly sure that, last time I looked, @ mentions of people's names weren't nofollowed - but now are, as this screenshot demonstrates.

@ mentions now nofollowed

Is this breaking news, or am I losing my mind?

Update I'm not. I've looked through the google cache of some tweets and this is new. And it seems I was beaten to the news ...

You should follow me on Twitter.

One Response to “Twitter adds nofollow to @names”

Andy Beard says:

February 17, 2010 at 11:49 pm

You are not going mad, but I probably am.

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