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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
submitted 1 year ago by DevCat to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/999543

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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[–] Tanel 17 points 1 year ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder, is this because they can't scrape the site anymore? Is it a deliberate move? Or is there some other effect?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Because you need to log in to view tweets. Most people don’t login to view them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

From what I understand Elon owes Google quite a bit of money for hosting related services and I'd expect this is partially due to that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reddit will be next. They are all also trying to block AI from consuming the sites whole. But the result is a Google that will be filled with AI garbage - it's like an AI-centipede of crap in and crap out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would think Elon knew all of this was coming with his decision.