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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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[–] ComplexLotus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

is there a human behind such decisions or is it just an automated algorithm?

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[–] Amilo159@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] bluestribute@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Has anyone noticed too that if you put AI Blockers on your website Google delists it from their search?

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

Mind you this is not Google doing it on purpose. This is just Musk's genius idea of blocking tweets without being logged in. Others will drop as well, they just need some time to expire. Also, if you are wondering if they can show tweets to crawler but not show it to others Google doesn't look favorably on that. Content must appear the same to crawler as well as humans.

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