Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Blocked or Not, Googlebot Will Find Your Updates on Twitter - - Report of Los Angeles Times


The function of blocking tweets for who is not a follower doesn’t work so as well as some people imagine. In spite of not being possible to access the page of the microblog Twitter of who activates the blockade, the messages posted by the user can be found in searches by Google.

According to a report of Los Angeles Times, the bot created by Google, called Googlebot, gets to access more than 5 billion messages posted in Twitter, including users’ profiles that block the posts from the public. Those tweets are available for anybody that makes a search for Google using the command www.twitter.com / and can find information that should be blocked.

Twitter already corrected two mistakes that allowed anybody to access blocked tweets. The own system of search of the service showed some of those messages. Besides, it was possible to sign the feed the user’s RSS, which showed the hidden posts.

In the internet, robots are applications that travel the internet in search of content with the objective of to index or to verify alterations happened from the last “visit.”

Robots are also known as “bots” or “crawlers.” Very known in the SEO community, they possess proper name. The Google robots are called Googlebot; the MSN robots, msnbot; the Yahoo robots of yahoobot or Yahoo! Slurp. Following links of pages, they allow to the search sites in the internet storing the content found on their way.

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