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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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[–] Dash11@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like this take, but this is a conspiracy theory take. Change a few words and this would be something regurgitated by Q fanatics.

[+] Emanresu@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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[–] hazeebabee 14 points 1 year ago

This is such a good way to word this kind of phenominon. Conspiracies as distraction.

Its also funny, because its a conspiracy about conspiracies lol

[–] MBM@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

astroturfed strawmanned groups such as extinction rebellion

What's wrong with XR?

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People who aren't going to do anything either way like to blame XR's protests for their own inaction.

[–] Dash11@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's far more simple that humans have a tendency to fractionalize everything they're apart of than it is a projection global conspiracy.

Some animal rights activists believe humans can have beneficial, symbiotic relationships with animals, like working dogs/horses, free range chickens that are well cared for, stuff like that.

Some animal rights activists think the concept of a working dog/horse as abhorrent because animals can't actually consent to that, the power dynamic makes it unethical, and utilizing the labor of an animal for personal gain is basically just slavery for a creature with less intelligence.

These two groups are closer to each other than they are to any right person that doesn't care at all for animals, but are still so dynamically opposed that they simply couldn't operate together because their end goals are dramatically different.

I'm a hardcore progressive. I will work with a capitalist democrat to get my goals met, but I wouldn't associate with them if I had a better option.

[–] Varixable@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Well said, thanks for doing the good work of pointing this out.

See other "grassroots" movements such as the Tea Party, Moms for Liberty, TPUSA, etc for the other side of this. These groups have clear and documented funding from billionaire interest groups and conveniently allow corporate media to conflate such far right groups with progressive movements as the same level of extremism.