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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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[–] Hypx@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 years ago

Pretty sure that number doesn't mean shit anyway.

[–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Imagine the mailbox getting all the “there are unresolved Mobile Usability issues with your site Twitter.com” and “new page indexing issues discovered” from Google Search Console Team

[–] Zoots@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Testing testing

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