Was Twitter coerced by Google to remove links?

In an attempt to remove potential benefits users can get from their social media profiles, Twitter.com joined the crowd of companies providing services, but not allowing their users to obtain any gains, like a simple dofollow link back to their sites, for their content creation efforts. Twitter recently removed all possibilities to pass link juice in the ‘About’ section by removing linking capabilities from the ‘Bio’ field. Several days ago I realized that the link in the ‘Web’ section of my...