If you checkout my twitter page davenaylor you can see 2 links 1 is nofollowed that’s standard but I dropped a “http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk” into my Bio 
screen shot :
please don’t get on my case about the need to follow more people, I know I know
DaveN
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22nd July 2008 @ 23:14
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I’m wondering if this might be going away soon.
22nd July 2008 @ 23:54
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Time to do something will all those ‘extra’ twitter accounts I may or may not have
23rd July 2008 @ 02:22
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Dave … that’s pretty cool … I was seeing the red nofollow indicator just the other day and was wondering how I could get a little link love from twitter … thanks for the FYI …
and FYI … I love your stuff …
You Have Been Aggregated on … SEO Master List
Have A Nice Day …
23rd July 2008 @ 03:07
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This is old news. I currently have 4 or 5 links on each account. Looks like Matt Cutts has taken the initiative to plug the hole in this PR dyke. Nice work.
23rd July 2008 @ 09:41
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Never said it was a new, Scoble has been doing it for ages as well ..
DaveN
23rd July 2008 @ 10:23
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Ta for the tip
Excuse my ignorance but what does the ‘me’ bit do in the rel=”me nofollow” ?
SEO for firefox doesn’t pick it up as a no-follow link by the looks.
John
23rd July 2008 @ 10:39
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[...] to make the effort (again) to use twitter so I’m tweaking my account. I’ve just read a post by Dave Naylor about plonking a URL into your twitter bio to gain a backlink - good tip! The [...]
23rd July 2008 @ 10:45
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Nice Tip! There are always tricks to learn :o)
Thanks very much,
Nick23rd July 2008 @ 12:10
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it’s the identity consolidation within the XFN1.1 framework you have a few other like friend etc ///
check out linkedin and facebook etc they use them as well
Dave
23rd July 2008 @ 12:15
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Google can help show you some of the relationships it knows about from blogrolls and the like via the Google Social Graph: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ - i.e. this stuff isn’t as esoteric as you might think, someone is using it
23rd July 2008 @ 13:41
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@willy franzen,
Why would they change it? Let’s be honest, it’s a microblog, on every single blog you’ve got a blogroll, right? so why not an search engine friendly backlink? Pfff….
Ok, we’ve got spammers also, but as long as internet exists, we will have those. Do the good guys have to suffer from the stupidities from the bad guys?
Neah, would we?
23rd July 2008 @ 19:27
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Why else would Matt Cutts send the Twitter founder a note about this?
If Twitter doesn’t nofollow it, the links will probably just get devalued anyways.
I’m not agreeing with the practice, just saying what’s probably going to happen. My solution would be to close this loophole and allow the website link to be followed. Twitter should be banning off spammers anyway, so it would be a nice way to reward loyal users.
23rd July 2008 @ 23:15
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Of course twitter has to be down for maintenance right now.
23rd July 2008 @ 23:32
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also works on plurk, for those of you who are trying to get on twitter now, and are being greeted by the giant whale.
24th July 2008 @ 00:08
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Great tip Dave! my bio area is keyword stuffed to trigger the filter at twellow
now to add a link to the already spammy bio 
I’ll be sure and mention this on todays SEO 101 show - link building 101 part duex.db
24th July 2008 @ 11:10
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that link should be followed because it is something relevant to the persons profile.
i think using nofollows on links like this by sites which get all of their content from users is abuse.
delicious and stumbleUpon nofollow all links out like they are not relevant…
…meanwhile all of their content is derived from these links! so they are the ultimate abusers of the nofollow tag. THEY HAVE NO ORIGINAL CONTENT
24th July 2008 @ 13:19
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@gerben - agreed, it’s part of the blogger’s profile for followers who are interested in learning more about the person. Great tip Dave!
24th July 2008 @ 14:32
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[...] u can put your link into the column “Web” at twitter but the Link is now nofollow. But David found a trick, you can post your link into the “Bio” column and the link is FOLLOW! [...]
24th July 2008 @ 16:01
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[...] Twitter Backlink Tip | From David Naylor [...]
29th July 2008 @ 22:41
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[...] what happens when you point things out to Google everyone?? That’s what makes writing this blog such a challenge.. How much to share and how [...]
3rd September 2008 @ 15:29
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[...] follows Dave Naylor’s backlink tip which caused Matt Cutts to notify Twitter founder Ev, appearing to request/recommend that [...]
3rd September 2008 @ 15:36
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[...] link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, which alerted Matt Cutts who sent a tweet to @ev (a twitter founder) about Dave’s [...]
3rd September 2008 @ 16:56
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[...] we knew this day would come. Especially after DaveN blogged about the technique and caught Google Engineer Matt Cutt’s attention. He sent a message to [...]
3rd September 2008 @ 17:51
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[...] The link that Matt is making reference to in his message (http://bit.ly/2vmSAz) points to Dave Naylor’s post titled Twitter Backlink Tip. [...]
3rd September 2008 @ 19:54
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Looks like Twitter has removed live url linking from the bio section of the site, too. Which is fine, but I don’t see what the harm is with linking to it’s users?
3rd September 2008 @ 23:28
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[...] link has always been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, which alerted Matt Cutts (a Google engineer) who sent a tweet to @ev (a twitter founder) about [...]
4th September 2008 @ 08:32
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[...] that would pass link juice. Matt Cutts frequents Dave’s blog and after reading the post, contacted Twitter regarding the link, who then added the “nofollow” attribute to [...]
4th September 2008 @ 16:25
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[...] einen Link zu Ihrer Homepage o.ä. angeben, dieser ist bei Twitter standardmäßig auf noFollow. Dave Naylor fand heraus, das bei Eingabe eines URL unter “Bio”, dieser dann durchaus suchmachinenwirksam [...]
5th September 2008 @ 11:04
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[...] short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-backlink-tip.html . David Naylor was pointing out that Twitter intentionally nofollowed links in the [...]
5th September 2008 @ 20:17
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[...] started when David Naylor published a Twitter backlink tip on his blog. That same day, Matt Cutts — yes, you read it right — sent an email and a [...]
6th September 2008 @ 05:57
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Identi.ca allows http://www. links in the details/bio. I wonder how long before they make the same change as Twitter (no active http://www. links in the Bio)?
6th September 2008 @ 10:42
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[...] דייויד ניילור חשף בבלוג שלו, כי ניתן להפיק כוח SEO מהקישור בשדה ה- bio [...]
6th September 2008 @ 14:12
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Thanks. Nice tips
7th September 2008 @ 15:41
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[...] usual, the drama begins with a blog post. Back in July, Dave Naylor succinctly and generally without comment notified users of how despite Twitter (rather [...]
8th September 2008 @ 07:25
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It not bad idea about twitter web ( http://www.) link or web link has to be made as “no follow” attribute . Yet “Bio” Field still ” link follow” the spider.
8th September 2008 @ 09:03
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[...] short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-backlink-tip.html . David Naylor was pointing out that Twitter intentionally nofollowed links in the [...]
8th September 2008 @ 19:22
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Then have you any idea about dofollow on twitter? I had post a link on my twitter account : http://twitter.com/kishosingh. Now the link is showing a back link from twitter. What about it?
9th September 2008 @ 07:28
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[...] started out with Dave Naylor giving a tip how to get some link juice from Twitter and has let us to yet another endless discussion on Matt’s blog about the no-follow [...]
10th September 2008 @ 18:18
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[...] had David Naylor een backlink tip om via een omwegje backlinks met linkjuice op je Twitter profiel te plaatsen. [...]
15th September 2008 @ 10:50
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that was wonderful piece of information
16th September 2008 @ 22:03
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[...] short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-backlink-tip.html . David Naylor was pointing out that Twitter intentionally nofollowed links in the [...]
20th September 2008 @ 17:07
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[...] told them to. The public message Matt Cutts sent to Twitter co-founder Evan Williams linked to David Naylor’s post on the subject of followed profile links and said that he’s “dropped (Evan) an email” about it. [...]
27th September 2008 @ 23:18
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[...] short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-backlink-tip.html . David Naylor was pointing out that Twitter intentionally nofollowed links in the [...]
22nd October 2008 @ 08:18
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[...] to make the effort (again) to use twitter so I’m tweaking my account. I’ve just read a post by Dave Naylor about plonking a URL into your twitter bio to gain a backlink - good tip! The [...]
23rd December 2008 @ 11:48
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[...] link has long been a nofollow link, but the bio links passed popularity until Dave Naylor exposed it, which alerted Matt Cutts (a Google engineer) who sent a tweet to @ev (a twitter founder) about [...]
12th February 2009 @ 13:22
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Just signed up to twittter. Shame about the nofollow on the bio.
18th February 2009 @ 12:01
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[...] le section Bio, et c’est la découverte qu’avait fait David Naylor sur son billet : Twitter Backlink tip [...]
9th March 2009 @ 15:14
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Nofollow is still a backlink even if it doesn’t pass on PR.
Thanks for info.
Following you on Twitter.17th March 2009 @ 10:18
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[...] David Naylor l’a fait remarqué sur son twitter et Matt Cutts le gourou de Google au niveau SEO a demandé la mise en place de Nofollow sur ce type de lien : ce qui fut fait . [...]
11th April 2009 @ 16:02
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[...] told them to. The public message Matt Cutts sent to Twitter co-founder Evan Williams linked to David Naylor’s post on the subject of followed profile links and said that he’s "dropped (Evan) an [...]
12th May 2009 @ 17:09
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So m.twitter.com’s still working then mate…
29th June 2009 @ 09:52
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