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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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[-] raunz@mander.xyz 25 points 1 year ago

Can I please get this guy's face off my front page? ._.

[-] Maul535@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

One of my coworkers absolutely loves Musk and I can't understand why... The guy's a joke. I feel like people think Musk is smart just because he's eccentric and has money, I hope eventually everyone comes to see just how normally intelligent he actually is

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[-] jtk 24 points 1 year ago

People with power shouldn't be allowed any control over platforms that give power to "the people". I believe this is all intentional. If it was just Twitter, or just Reddit, or just 1 TV network, I wouldn't think that but they're sabotaging all the mainstream platforms at once and making it incredibly obvious. They're trying to collapse our means of communication ahead of 2024.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 24 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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[-] Pillarist@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Let Them Fight

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[-] grinde@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I saw the result with 227 million earlier, but I just checked again and now it's 648 million. Odd.

[-] Ir0nfire@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

It might be catching and data mirrioring. When you run something as large as google there are hundreds of servers that need to be synced. Deleting large chunks of data can take an extremely long time to propagate.

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[-] OasissisaO@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Not that I frequented Twitter that often, but damned if forcing me to login is going to happen.

I'm not trying to do anything to increase their traffic or numbers.

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