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

Queue the person on the forums telling you that it’s your fault and not the search engine because somehow you’re doing it wrong.

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[-] bluestribute@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

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

I guess that's what happens when you don't pay your hosting fees.

[-] Hypx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

For one thing, this is sad because even more of the Internet is no longer reachable. The Internet shrinks, and will continue to get smaller as enshittification continues.

But on the other hand, this is really starting to look like the death knell of Twitter. It's quickly becoming extremely inconvenient to see any tweets on Twitter now.

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[-] grinde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I saw the result with 227 million earlier, but I just checked again and now it's 648 million. Odd.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure that number doesn't mean shit anyway.

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