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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Elon going to complain about another conspiracy going on while in reality it's just that when crawlers are not able to open a certain URL they simply assume that the page doesn't exist anymore. Google certainly didn't "retaliate", bots simply couldn't find those pages anymore.
The headline is actually wrong. Google did not do anything to Twitter. Twitter fucked up their own SEO by removing access to its content.
This is correct.
Yeah, that's a pretty easy and reasonable conclusion to come to if you think about if for more than five seconds. I'm not sure Elon has any toes left after he keeps shooting himself in the feet.
If your company cares about it's SEO rankings, you don't make changes like these without considering the SEO implications.
Not even a month later and said company rebranded itself without checking trademarks. Now we have "X", a brand that non only risks infringement of quite a few registered eu-trademarks but didn't even apply for an own eu-trademark...
Just like reddit. Looks like the Speztic and the Elongated Muskrat are caught in an ouroborus of like-minded stupidity.
Elongated Muskrat 🤣
The latest in a seemingly never-ending series of self-owns. Apart from the stress it must put on their devs, it's been entertaining
They have more than one dev left?
No it's just one guy called Dev.
And he's on a H1B visa and can't leave.
Dude was just a marketing intern and is mad stressed and knows he's in WAY over his head now.
Fake it 'till you make it.
Or the multibillion dollar company collapses into a heaping, flaming pile of slag as a result of your actions. One or the other.
It’s a win/win
They screwed up his name tag, because reasons.
His name is actually Dave. But there aren't any other Dave's working there anymore so he is ok with being called Dev.
Deb on the other hand is pretty pissed off.
Or maybe it's this guy, Dev from a canadian tv show called The Listener. They called the hacker 'Dev', I'm assuming it's on purpose.
https://thelistener.fandom.com/wiki/Dev_Clark
My understanding is there's group of people whose visa is sponsored by Twitter. If they leave the company, they may well have to leave the country.
That's a big yikes and I hope they will find another way...
Coercing workers built America! They can't leave... because of the implication.
Are you gonna hurt these workers?
Yeah, he lives in the break room on a cot.
Twitter still has devs?
Twitter’s dev(s)
Crawl issues I am sure but also user experience issues. Google is sensitive to sending visitors to sites where metrics indicate users do not, like bounce rates etc. I don't use twt but if it is the case you have the be logged in to see anything now, a non-logged in user will click a link from Google hit a login page, and use the back button. I would assume Google will see that as a bad search result and use it less.
that actually makes a lot of sense
The word bots triggers the muskrat.
I wonder if Google prioritized recrawling all those Twitter links.
If I were making a web crawler, I would make it so that if a crawler finds a domain that appears to have changed dramatically or gone offline it will re-crawl the domain and flag already-crawled pages as potentially obsolete.
My urge to eat a liberal amount popcorn has been triggered a lot by twitter's slow motion train wreck.