Ask HN:Should google include tweets and retweets as part of pagerank?

If this happened google bombing would become that much easier.

I shudder to think of what 4chan would do with such power

The spam on twitter is bad enough as it is, as soon as this happens you can expect it to go right through the roof.

I don't know enough about spam on twitter, but can't most spam be recognized by how many people are being followed and how many followers they have? But as I said I don't know enough about it

Do you mean basing a PageRank not based on Twitter's PageRank, but on the users' popularity or influence?