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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
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Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter's links from its search results after the social network's owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited.

Search Engine Roundtable found that Google had removed 52% of Twitter links since the crackdown began last week. Twitter now blocks users who are not logged in and sets limits on reading tweets.

According to Barry Schwartz, Google reported 471 million Twitter URLs as of Friday. But by Monday morning, that number had plummeted to 227 million.

"For normal indexing of these Twitter URLs, it seems like these tweets are dropping out of the sky," Schwartz wrote.

Platformer reported last month that Twitter refused to pay its bill for Google Cloud services.

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[–] kennydidwhat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The details are unclear as to why these links were removed. Opining on Alphabet's morals at this point is premature.

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not premature because calling Google evil has absolutely nothing to do with this action.

[–] kennydidwhat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We don't need to make up reasons to call corpos such as Alphabet evil. The fact of the matter is that at this time, nobody even knows if Google lifted a finger to forward the delisting of Tweets. For all we know, it could be entirely on Twitter's end.

Hence, assigning blame to Google for this without understanding their role in it is premature.

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

It could also be the search algorithm reacting to all the users returning to google after seeing only the login page

[–] ieatpillowtags@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

He also said “doing evil things” but I’ve seen no evidence that they have “done” anything. This could be just be the algorithm responding to these tweets no longer being visible without login.