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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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[–] Bonnie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only that did anything

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It does. People need to band together to hold these deranged billionaires to account.

[–] Bonnie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep they do but boycotting rarely works if even possible. There are/were better tools to holding rich and powerful people accountable.

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Do it all. Everything helps.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, Twitter is not a life or death thing, they can just scooch over a bit to ignore then