Twitter Only Launch

• GoogleBot averaged its first visit within 78 seconds of the first tweet.
• Tweets with more than 3 RTs were indexed 325% faster, along with 125% more of its products and post indexed than tweets with no RTs.
• Average indexation of the post or product was different depending on number of RTs

(via SEOmoz)

Twitter links may be nofollow, but there’s definitely search value in them. The gentlemen at SEOmoz have discovered a positive correlation between the number of retweets, index speed, and pages indexed.