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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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[-] Landmammals@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago
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[-] Aimhere@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Nice analogy. Only problem, neither of the combatants is Godzilla, so there's no one for us humans to cheer for. It's more like Ghidorah versus another Ghidorah, the latter being nothing but Kevin heads.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait... so google can just do that? Guess Pinterest bought the premium cloud services and never misses a payment. And tips.

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[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

#BoycottGoogle #BoycottMusk #BoycottBillionaires

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[-] macintosh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago
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[-] Hypx@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

For one thing, this is sad because even more of the Internet is no longer reachable. The Internet shrinks, and will continue to get smaller as enshittification continues.

But on the other hand, this is really starting to look like the death knell of Twitter. It's quickly becoming extremely inconvenient to see any tweets on Twitter now.

[-] Antaeus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Very good. An evil corporation doing evil things to an evil agenda.

[-] kennydidwhat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The details are unclear as to why these links were removed. Opining on Alphabet's morals at this point is premature.

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[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Funny Google's motto is 'don't do evil'

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[-] nikolqy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Obviously, this is political and dangerous, and Musk should send a letter to HQ telling them to, well, go to sleep and just not wake up. Google knows exactly what they're doing. We already know Google has blacklisted Truth and Rumble, and other sites it doesn't like, and they're about to do it to Twitter. They didn't do this to Reddit when it went private. Also, if you don't believe me, use Bing and search for Truth and Rumble and everything is correctly indexed, then look at Google, and it doesn't index hardly anything.

I've been saying for a while now that Google is one of the most dangerous companies in the world, and one of the most partisan if anything.

If you think I'm being dramatic, just look at some leaked footage to understand how this company operates. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6162889/Leaked-Google-conference-video-shows-founder-comparing-Trump-voters-extremists.html

I won't even mention their news tab, advertising business, insanely biased search results or anything like that, but google in its entirety is an insanely dangerous company that takes action based on their political beliefs, and because of the scale of Twitter and Google, it's definitely discrimination and shouldn't be tolerated. I'm just happy that Google is getting less popular every day.

[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Ah, that's gonna sting. Google is still most people's gateway to finding stuff.

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