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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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[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Elon, please buy Reddit and repeat your amazing ideas over there. You are so smart.

[-] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 16 points 1 year ago

Spez is already doing his best work to fuck over the platform. Are you certain Elon could do any better?

[-] divingaround@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

Spez already said he admires how Elon is running Twitter.

[-] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I mean there's admiring a ruthless mob boss - and then there is admiring a petty thief that keeps getting arrested and all his plans blow up in this face.

Spez is losing his tiny mind.

[-] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 4 points 1 year ago

The best part is that Elon is proving to be a pro at losing money left and right while simultaneously inventing new ways to make a social media platform suck to use.

[+] YellowtoOrange@lemmy.world -14 points 1 year ago

Oh, there's scope to introduce "official" Reddit user badges for 10 bucks a pop and all of sorts of suicidal Musk shenanigans

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Wait until you have to be logged in to read any posts on Reddit.

[-] Petter1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Didn't we achieve this by turning all subreddit NSFW?

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, but when the users and mods who built the site do it, it's petty and selfish. When the ceo does it, it's brilliant, compounds user value, and improves the security of the user experience. /s

[-] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 2 points 1 year ago

I'm down, Spez. What's bad for Reddit is good for us.

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly... We're all (or a massive chunk of us are) Reddit refugees. I don't give many fucks about that place. If it thrives, whatever. It's out of my control. I'm not going to hate post here with fantasies of spez seeing it and being like, "WHYYYYY?"

What little I've seen here seems like a disproportionate amount of passionate and quality users came over here. Users that were likely a bit more than casual; ie we we invested enough to use 3rd party clients, some of us are probably former mods who got disillusioned, etc.

We're all giddy and it is the honeymoon phase and I HOPE HOPE HOPE the users' enthusiasm doesn't fizzle like Mastodon seems to but I would say, just use this. Enjoy it. Post worthwhile things. I don't think Reddit is necessarily going away, but if it's just some weird bot riddled, low effort posts sort of place, why would we want to be there anyway?

[-] Marxine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The fediverse will probably last as long as the internet does, if the BBS is anything to go by. And I've seen people starting to realize federation is an actually decent option at the very least.

[-] WldFyre@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I saw people unironically saying this and being upvoted for it in hackernews, completely turned me off from the site lol

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