Is that even a surprise? Gone are the days when you wrote a “linkbait” to pass some search engine juice to your pages. Well, you can still produce stellar content but the effect of it as far as building links goes won’t be as effective as it once used to be. Twitter is awesome. I love it. I use it as a communication channel, an engagement tool and marketing platform, but damn, it seems like it’s killing a lot of other aspect of blogging that we all grew so accustomed to.
Linkbaits certainly aren’t dead but they can be put under the category of “soon to be extinct.” When you create content that goes viral, there used to be a time people took time to mention it on their blogs, not anymore. They simply sign on to their Twitter account and link away and hundreds other retweet. You certainly get the pageviews but in the long run you lose out on those precious link juice that once used to be the cornerstone of success, it still is but much harder to get.
Anyways, just a quick thought from this corner of the web. Share your thoughts. Do your linkbait efforts produce as much result as they used to or did retweets kill it?
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Hi, My name is Ritu. I am a member of SMA (Social Media Anonymous) ;-) & help bloggers and businesses utilize the social web. 
I wouldn’t worry about it too much. If Twitter were to continue to grow, I think Google would pick up on the fact that there seems to be less link juice being passed around. The other reason I say not to worry, is the fact that I don’t honestly see Twitter traffic growing much more than it already has, at least in the US. In fact I would bet it numbers will be less than 20M a month by Jan. 2010. You are most likely going to see a downward trend soon.
Right now Twitter is facing a major problem. It has gotten a ton of new users, and many of them have drastically reduced or stopped using Twitter soon after. Getting those important jump on the wagon type people back is not an easy task.
Now if you had said Facebook instead of Twitter you may have something….
You know we are on the same page. I don’t think Twitter will see the continued growth but you have to make sure you utilize the hype to your advantage
and analyze how it’s effecting other promotional aspects of your business and so on and so forth.
That is for sure…I’m a firm believer of getting there first…