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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 to c/technology
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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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[โ€“] graphite 62 points 2 years ago (16 children)

decimates

Twitter absolutely DESTROYED by RATE LIMITING and ELON

[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Um actually ๐Ÿค“ decimating it would be 47 million links ๐Ÿค“ not 227 million

[โ€“] Windexhammer 3 points 2 years ago

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

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