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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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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's funny how Spez idolizes a guy who doesn't pay his bills. It's also funny watching the hate pplatform Twitter get absolutely destroyed by its owner. The internet in 2023 is a wild and crazily changing place.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point I’m half convinced spez was such an asshole to Reddits users because of how the community turned on his idol elon. I remember not longer than two years ago Reddit was basically musk circlejerk but this genius fucked up even that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's even stupider than that. Spez didn't realize he pissed off the Apollo dev, and the shock of that first Apollo post made him ashamed and angry. He's kept a lot of vitriol aimed at the Apollo dev. Spez fucked reddit because he got mad.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And for the better too. People will come to realize that there are better ways to socialize on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't believe how fast the fediverse is growing thanks to both reddit and Twitter simultaneously imploding. I honestly welcome it, despite the growing pains this feels more like early 2000s reddit than the modern version ever did.

Can't wait for genZ to welcome the return of spaces that aren't optimized for monetization over communication first.

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

As someone who spent the last 13 years browsing reddit almost entirely with RIF, if it hadn't been for third party services I'd have left when they added awards.

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

Now we need to do the same thing with YouTube and Twitch

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

That would be nice, but is at a whole other scale with bandwidth and storage space.

Although there is a fediverse alternative for Video Hosting: https://joinpeertube.org/