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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
submitted 2 years ago by DevCat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[โ€“] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 18 points 2 years ago

Musky is probably wondering how to charge search engines indexing his site for free

[โ€“] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago

I'm enjoying watching Twitter go up in flames in real time. ๐Ÿฟ

[โ€“] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Sorry for off topic, but what is rawstory? It's on some tracking blocklist and that url is funny. Although it looks just like any other news site.

[โ€“] DevCat@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Left-leaning, mostly accurate, sensation stories.

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[โ€“] Amilo159@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And that, good folks, is how you run a service into ground.

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[โ€“] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 14 points 2 years ago

a part of me wants this to get worse so that people finally realize elon is insane once and for all

[โ€“] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

#BoycottGoogle #BoycottMusk #BoycottBillionaires

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[โ€“] macintosh@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What is his endgame

[โ€“] DevCat@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Generous of you to believe he's thought that far ahead.

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[โ€“] eric5949@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Google didn't do anything, musk is the one who made them disappear to googles bots.

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