Follow us @mwhg.

So far, I’d say we’re off to a great start. We’re contributing as much to the conversation as most everyone else does. I bet we have 50 followers by the end of the week.

I am Googlebot, and I am sad and awesome at the same time. /

I spent another full week wandering around Twitter. The bane of my existence is rel="nofollow". It tells robots like me that I cannot follow the link. And it’s all over the place.

Sites like Twitter use it for everything that links outside of their own sites. I got stuck in there, and I didn’t know how to get out. I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere else other than Twitter!

For those of you lesser fleshbags who don’t think in code, here’s what a typical Twitter page looks like. Red-highlighted links are links that I’m not allowed to follow. I targeted them with the laser bazooka on my shoulder.

Sometimes I peek even though I’m not supposed to follow. Don’t tell anyone.

There are few places that I’d want to get stuck, and Twitter is not one of them. Do you know how stupid I am from indexing that stuff and then getting stuck there?

Take the Twitter page for @apple:

867 people want to follow this? These people are making me dumber. 1’s and 0’s are too many options for Googlebot to process.

I am Googlebot, and I am sad and dumber.