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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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[–] dr_doomscroller@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

shirley this has nothing to do with the massive outstanding bill twitter owes to google cloud

[–] Juris_LLM@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago

It could be something like that. And stop calling me Shirley.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (27 children)

Twitter was an important unifying communications tool during the Arab Spring. The Arab spring was a threat to biz as usual in places like Saudi Arabia. The second largest investor in Twitter is Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia killed and dismembered a journalist from the US, more or less in plain sight. Elon is now killing and dismembering Twitter in plain sight to limit its power as a unifying tool that stands as a demonstrable, active threat to capitalism and oligarchs around the world.

Billionaires do favors for other billionaires. It's part of why spez is trying to tank Reddit. Remember how dangerous Reddit was to capitalism's status quo around the time of GME/Robinhood/Antiwork recently.

The specific moment we're in right now is meant to shatter consolidated organizing power on Reddit as we splinter into several smaller alternative platforms (or for some, disconnect entirely). Not saying we shouldn't be in Lemmy, but calling out the larger reality of the moment.

Billionaires do favors for other billionaires.

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[–] Idefinitelydonotknow@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I am genuinely curious. What's the role of the new CEO if this turd keeps doing everything he can to burn this ish to the ground?

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ever heard of the glass cliff? You might even see a name or two on that list that you recognize.

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[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She straight up admitted that she was essentially a sock puppet CEO and would offer no friction to anything Musk wanted.

[–] whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Musk is a manchild who can't handle being told "no", so that's a given.

But it's smart of her to put that out in advance. It informs Musk that she will stay out of his way, and she doesn't have to take the blame for idiotic decisions made by him.

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[–] agoramachina@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gotta have someone to push off the glass cliff

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[–] Pillarist@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You've heard of a "walled garden".
But this... this has become a "walled right-wing dumpster".

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[–] Ruorc@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Blocking users who are not logged in has farther reaching consequences that aren't readily apparent. For example, there was an AMBER Alert a few days ago with a short link to see more info. The link goes back to a Twitter account/tweet. All that time sensitive, useful information was behind a wall where you can't see it unless you log in. Most people aren't going to create an account just to do that.

[–] CthulhuOnIce@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

This is such an incredible and incompetent failure for the amber alert system too though to be fair

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