Twitter and Google
Twitter has a high Google search rank, so chances are, your profile will show up in a Google search. Depending on the degree to which this bothers you, you can do several things:
- - change your name as it appears in your Profile Settings
- - change your username
- - protect your Tweets
Keep in mind that the words you write in updates may also be indexed and come up in a search for those terms.
Why am I Listed on Google after Deleting or Protecting my Tweets?
- All public Tweets posted before you select the account setting "protect my Tweets" will still be indexed in a public search engine, including twitter.com/search.
- Once you have saved your account settings to protect your Tweets, the Tweets you make will be protected.
- However, Google and other search engines cache search results, which means that occasionally old information is still posted. Although Twitter changes your settings immediately, these changes don't erase old information in Google's search index.
- Any old links appearing in a Google search will lead to Twitter's truth-telling error page: "That page doesn't exist!"
- The old links still appear because Google and other search engines may not have the current information updated in their search index.
- Until Google updates the new information and indexes your current status, links to the profile or updates posted prior to removal/protection remain online.
Send Google a Request to Remove the Information- Google will eventually index updated Twitter information, but if you'd like it done sooner, follow these steps.
- If you can click on a link in a Google search, and it takes you to a dead/error page, you can request removal of that link using the URL removal tool.
http://support.twitter.com/groups/33-report-a-violation/topics/148-policy-information/articles/15349-why-is-my-twitter-profile-in-google-search