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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ahh the genius that is Elon Musk, I'm sure we're all cowering at his superior intellect.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tesla and SpaceX must be full of smart people if they can succeed despite Elon Musk shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is literally the complaint from ex-employees of his companies. He is Tony Stark meets Michael Scott. So much money it compensates for sheer stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I have never heard a more perfect description of Elon Musk.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Michael Scott's heart can be in the right place, Musk is straight cruel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did we see the same show? Micheal Scott is incredibly cruel all the time and his heart is rarely in the right place lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Can be", not "always is"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Literally all you need is enough money and you can pay smart people to do impressive things, while taking all the credit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

SpaceX has a lot to benefit from the fact that a lot of people love the idea of working with rockets but the actual job market was very limited with places like NASA only taking the best of the best. Which doesn't mean SpaceX has subpar engineers and scientists, humanity just has a lot more to offer than NASA and other smaller space agencies could afford to employ.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's absolutely beyond me why these idiots don't pay people to think of clever things and discourage dumb things.

Imagine having your own "think tank", it works be like living life on cheat mode.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Smart rich people have advisors they listen to.

Rich people who are too “smart” to listen to advice have sycophants.