I am awestruck by the collective nonsense I'm reading on this page. You people need a serious reality check. Even if Twitter was big enough to significantly influence search engine rankings--which it definitely ISN'T--it would still be nothing more than a noisy stream of garbage data, being produced by a very narrow range of internet users.

The suggestion that search engines will eventually be forced to consider Twitter data as a ranking signal is laughable. While we're at it, let's build these signals into the algo:

MafiaRank - the more MySpace users you have in your Mafia Wars family, the more important you are.

PokeRank - the more Facebook users that have SuperPoked you, the more popular you are. SuperPokes from users with high PokeRank are worth more than low-PokeRank SuperPokes.

Really, when you think about it... how could Google NOT use MafiaRank and PokeRank? I mean... Mafia Wars alone has 12 MILLION active monthly users, and it hasn't even been around for a whole year yet. We're looking at a growth rate of more than 1.2 BILLION % per year! With numbers that big, it's only a matter of time before Google ditches their search engine entirely and actually starts a mafia business.

Whose family are you gonna join, the Brin-nellis or the Page-arinos?

Trust me, folks... 2010 is going to be all about Mafia Wars Marketing and PokeRank sculpting. If your company doesn't already have at least 50% of your advertising budget set aside for dedicated Mafia Wars optimization, then you're basically sending your customers to your competitors' mafia families.

And one last thing...

Only pursue natural, editorial-grade pokes. Stay away from paid pokes, poke exchanges, and poke farms.