In an effort to index the web in real time it means Google is finding more backlinks in real time as well. This means if you are constantly publishing content people find of interest, Google will find those backlinks a lot faster. Twitter has created a new explosion in the way backlinks get generated. Bots & individuals set up keyword searches for specific topics on Twitter. Then there are a variety of services out there that are scraping those tweets including the backlinks and republishing with the backlinks intact. On sites like http://paper.li & http://amplify.com you will see many examples of this.
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