SEOs Calling Out Google's Matt Cutts As A Hypocrite?

On Friday, Matt Cutts, Google's head of fighting all evil web spam, posted on Twitter an interview he gave to the usesthis.com blog. It is basically a place where a guy named Daniel interviews nerds about what hardware they use.

The latest interview was Matt Cutts and you can read it over here. I read it, included it in the daily SearchCap this Friday and didn't think anything of it.

But Matt got a lot of reaction to the interview, calling it out because of all the keyword rich anchor text and the Affiliate Link at the bottom linking to the hosting company.

Google Webmaster Tools Link Count Drops 

 I am seeing some reports from Webmasters that the link report in GoogleWebmaster Tools is reporting a much smaller fraction of links.

A Google Webmaster Help has one webmaster complaining a drop from 7,000 to 4,000 reported links.
I checked this site's and we dropped from almost 4 million links (I am not sure how many I had recently here but June of last year we had 3.8M) and now it is just above 2 million. Not that it bothers me. But it does show that the link counts have dropped and I am able to confirm it on this site.
Google Webmaster Tools has had this issue several times, including June 2013, February 2013 and other times.
So if you see your link count drop significantly, do not worry. It has no direct impact on your rankings. "It" being the reporting in Webmaster Tools.