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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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[-] PhoenxBlue@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

Can someone please ELI5 what his end game is? I refuse to pay attention to twitter, but Elon, he's crazy.

[-] DevCat@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

You are assuming he has one. Before he overpaid for Twitter, he probably thought he would turn it into a successful version of TruthSocial. Then reality came knocking. Now, he may have no idea what he's going to do.

When you were a kid, did you ever take apart an old vacuum cleaner or power tool, thinking "I'm going to make something great out of this"? Then, when you had all the pieces lying around you, you wondered why you even started because you have no idea what you are going to do now? That may be Elon at the moment. He's looking at the parts of his mom's treasured vacuum cleaner, and wondering how he can blame it on the brother his parents never gave him.

[-] influence1123@psychedelia.ink 7 points 1 year ago

That's spot on.

[-] boopdepop@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

This pretty much sums it up for twitter I guess. Thank god we have fediverse (at least for those savvy enough) to partake in

[-] PhoenxBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Beautiful analogy.

I can so relate to this, and it honestly does make perfect sense.

When I was 8, I took a hacksaw to my cousins bike and ripped it in half. My plan was to make a unicycle... I only made people upset.

[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Hubris?

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Debris

[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

He does not have one. He's just high on whatever it is he's taking.

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