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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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[–] Tygr@lemmy.world 240 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Elon, please buy Reddit and repeat your amazing ideas over there. You are so smart.

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 106 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Spez is already doing his best work to fuck over the platform. Are you certain Elon could do any better?

[–] divingaround@mander.xyz 85 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Spez already said he admires how Elon is running Twitter.

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 41 points 1 year ago

The best part is that Elon is proving to be a pro at losing money left and right while simultaneously inventing new ways to make a social media platform suck to use.

[–] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

I mean there's admiring a ruthless mob boss - and then there is admiring a petty thief that keeps getting arrested and all his plans blow up in this face.

Spez is losing his tiny mind.

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