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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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[-] solarzones@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

And for the better too. People will come to realize that there are better ways to socialize on the internet.

[-] overlordror@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I can't believe how fast the fediverse is growing thanks to both reddit and Twitter simultaneously imploding. I honestly welcome it, despite the growing pains this feels more like early 2000s reddit than the modern version ever did.

Can't wait for genZ to welcome the return of spaces that aren't optimized for monetization over communication first.

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu -1 points 2 years ago

Now we need to do the same thing with YouTube and Twitch

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