I’ve been noticing that Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, has been removing posts from his X (formerly Twitter) account a lot. I also noticed on select posts, John Mueller from Google has also done that but a lot less often.
John removed tweets related to Google not rolling back the helpful content update. If you read that story, you can see the tweets were removed but the embeds that I used are still showing the text of his tweet.
Here is a partial screenshot:
John Mueller, from what I can tell, rarely ever removes his posts from X. So these removals made me do a double-take. Did Google roll back the helpful content update? They didn’t say they did. So why remove those posts?
I did email John over a week ago before publishing this asking for a comment about the removal. I did not hear back. I also asked John and Danny about the removals on Twitter, in which Danny replied but John did not.
Danny Sullivan automates the removal of his tweets from his personal account. He told me on X, ” On my personal account, I have (well had, the service died) auto-delete that’s been in place for over a year. It kept things with some notable engagement that seemed, well, worth keeping. I can pull work tweets up from my archive if needed.”
Meaning, he had a tool that removed posts that had lower levels of engagement. Why? I am not sure. I guess he felt the lower-level engagement stuff was not worth keeping. I did not see him doing that on his @searchliaison account but again, he said the service has been turned off that does that.
I think you mean off my personal account, not @searchliaison. I shifted fully to @searchliaison for work stuff at the beginning of this year. On my personal account, I have (well had, the service died) auto-delete that’s been in place for over a year. It kept things with some…
