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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sorry for off topic, but what is rawstory? It's on some tracking blocklist and that url is funny. Although it looks just like any other news site.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a left-wing news outlet. I don't think there's anything malicious there in terms of security.

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These blocklists are wack sometimes, I need to keep adding exceptions...

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usually when I get a warning of that sort, I manually retype the url for safety’s sake, or double-check the site on Wikipedia or Whois it. There may be some characters that look identical to others. Article on it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/30/fact-check-hackers-use-similar-looking-characters-phishing-schemes/4891437001/

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Good point. Btw this is Rethink DNS on my phone with a ton of active blocklists, which are quite often overzealous... So then I visit the url in Tor Browser instead.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ehh, I get ~3 pages of 3rd party crap, most of which is on block lists. Red = explicitly blocked, 3rd party scripts and XHR blocked by default (I do also block google.com, gstatic.com and facebook.com whenever they're a 3rd party, but every other red domain is considered dodgy by default).

One.

Two.

Three.

uMatrix FTW

Edit: Also I should say that if I were to enable things more stuff would almost certainly load up.

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's a fact of any news site these days.

Btw uBlock on FF + Rethink DNS ftw

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Left-leaning, mostly accurate, sensation stories.

[–] tentphone@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Some block lists will include newly registered or rarely visited domains.

[–] Ducks@ducks.dev 3 points 1 year ago

The article quotes their source as https://www.seroundtable.com/twitter-google-search-drop-35648.html, which are just showing the decrease in search results each day on Google for site:twitter.com.