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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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[-] Amilo159@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

And that, good folks, is how you run a service into ground.

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

"Google decimates Twitter search results" makes it sound like it's something Google did intentionally, rather than a simple refresh of Google's cache, now that they can't spider their way through Twitter's network.

In other words, it's Twitter that did this, not Google.

I don't support either in particular, but this shouldn't be immediately assumed as retaliation.

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[-] Hypx@kbin.social 15 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.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 13 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.

This was only a problem because of improper centralization in the first place. From that perspective, this is the Internet self-correcting a defect.

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[-] blivet@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Fine by me. I never saw any value in it, even well before Musk took over. The character limit is guaranteed to eliminate any nuance, and the interface makes it incredibly difficult to follow what discussion there is.

[-] 4am@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I think originally when Twitter was created, the idea was that it would also be accessible via SMS and so the limit was imposed in order to allow a a tweet to fit into one SMS message.

We’ve had Twitter since SMS cost per-message on most plans.

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[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 14 points 1 year ago

a part of me wants this to get worse so that people finally realize elon is insane once and for all

[-] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

I'm enjoying watching Twitter go up in flames in real time. 🍿

[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

#BoycottGoogle #BoycottMusk #BoycottBillionaires

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[-] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago

Musky is probably wondering how to charge search engines indexing his site for free

[-] macintosh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] DevCat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Generous of you to believe he's thought that far ahead.

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[-] dr_doomscroller@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

shirley this has nothing to do with the massive outstanding bill twitter owes to google cloud

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