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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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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Elon going to complain about another conspiracy going on while in reality it's just that when crawlers are not able to open a certain URL they simply assume that the page doesn't exist anymore. Google certainly didn't "retaliate", bots simply couldn't find those pages anymore.

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

The latest in a seemingly never-ending series of self-owns. Apart from the stress it must put on their devs, it's been entertaining

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

They have more than one dev left?

[–] cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

My understanding is there's group of people whose visa is sponsored by Twitter. If they leave the company, they may well have to leave the country.

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

I wonder if Google prioritized recrawling all those Twitter links.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The headline is actually wrong. Google did not do anything to Twitter. Twitter fucked up their own SEO by removing access to its content.

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

Just like reddit. Looks like the Speztic and the Elongated Muskrat are caught in an ouroborus of like-minded stupidity.

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

Elongated Muskrat 🤣

[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is correct.

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's a pretty easy and reasonable conclusion to come to if you think about if for more than five seconds. I'm not sure Elon has any toes left after he keeps shooting himself in the feet.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If your company cares about it's SEO rankings, you don't make changes like these without considering the SEO implications.

[–] Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

The word bots triggers the muskrat.