“As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter; as a result, Twitter accounts and Tweets are often the most relevant (search) results,” the company said in a statement.
“We’re concerned that as a result of Google’s changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone. We think that’s bad for people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users,” Twitter added.
If we could remember, Google and twitter had a deal for real-time feed of Twitter messages within its search results which expired in July. This forced Google to add Google+ to continue the real time feed.
Google had replied to twitter in a statement posted on Google+,”We are a bit surprised by Twitter’s comments about Search plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer (http://goo.gl/chKwi), and since then we have observed their rel=nofollow instructions.”