Yes, it's true. As someone searches for "easy baked bean summer recipe," he or she might also pull up your tweet from 2011 about your explosive gas situation after sampling a co-worker's baked bean recipe at the company summer retreat. We don't even know you, but now we know just a little bit too much about you. Then again, isn't that the whole point of social media?
Don't forget the hiring manager who might do a simple Google search while looking at our resume. Will he or she decide to swipe left on our job prospects at the company? #tweegret.
Why, oh why, is this happening? Apparently, Twitter and Google, which have had a rocky, on-again/off-again relationship over the years, have been canoodling lately and re-discovering what they have in common while the rest of us continue to embarrass ourselves daily on social media. Now Twitter and Google wants us to feel the love, too.
According to PC Magazine:
The companies said today that Twitter content will show up in Google search results. It's rolling out to the iOS and Android Google apps and the mobile Web in the U.S. The desktop version will arrive "shortly," as will content in other countries.Twitter has a spokesperson named Twitter? Wow.And:
"By deeply integrating Twitter's real-time content into Google search, we hope you find it easier than ever to explore your interests across both Twitter and Google," Twitter said.
But what might it mean for the average person who is not Taylor Swift? I'll tell you exactly what it means, in Twitter speak: #checkyouroldtweetsstat.
Review your Twitter history, before it's too late! Remember what you said and delete what you can, although it will still be there forever. But take heart, job seekers: At least you're not authoring a stupid, random workplace blog.
Of course, Google filters our results to pull up the most popular pages first. Will Google filter out our non-retweeted tweets that were most in need of some filter at the time? Will our tweets show up 40 pages deep into someone's Google search, long after he or she has given up scrolling through pages and pages of random tweets inserted among more targeted search results? #we'llfindoutsoon
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