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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
submitted 2 years 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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[–] graphite@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

decimates

Twitter absolutely DESTROYED by RATE LIMITING and ELON

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Um actually πŸ€“ decimating it would be 47 million links πŸ€“ not 227 million

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Um actually a word's etymology does not define its modern usage. πŸ€“

[–] Bobsyouruncle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It does if people use it correctly

[–] null_@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Found the language prescriptivist! Linguists, let’s all point and laugh at them!

[–] Bobsyouruncle@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hah hah! Oh wait...

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You’ve fallen victim to one of the classic blunders

[–] graphite@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You do realize that there are multiple definitions for the word "decimate", yes?

[–] regular_human@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

proscriptivists btfo lmao

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Good goob, booby froob.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except when that word still has a literal meaning which is used by people to represent the original idea.

[–] Windexhammer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Um ackshually, decimating only means removing 1/10th, so what happened is actually many times worse than a decimation.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Well that's what happens when you don't want to pay the bills.