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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Wait... so google can just do that? Guess Pinterest bought the premium cloud services and never misses a payment. And tips.

[–] sneezy@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, those links are good as dead if you can't see anything without a login. Pinterest shows you a few things before nagging you to log in.

[–] Dreadrat@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

They do that for any site that isnt serving content anymore...i.e. essentially down. Will come back within a few days usually.

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just Google "NASA twitter" and click on one of the pretty links up top. Those haven't been removed yet.