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...

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.

  • Ruorc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Blocking users who are not logged in has farther reaching consequences that aren’t readily apparent. For example, there was an AMBER Alert a few days ago with a short link to see more info. The link goes back to a Twitter account/tweet. All that time sensitive, useful information was behind a wall where you can’t see it unless you log in. Most people aren’t going to create an account just to do that.

  • bluestribute@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Has anyone noticed too that if you put AI Blockers on your website Google delists it from their search?

  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    You’ve heard of a “walled garden”.
    But this… this has become a “walled right-wing dumpster”.

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Elon going to complain about another conspiracy going on while in reality it’s just that when crawlers are not able to open a certain URL they simply assume that the page doesn’t exist anymore. Google certainly didn’t “retaliate”, bots simply couldn’t find those pages anymore.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The headline is actually wrong. Google did not do anything to Twitter. Twitter fucked up their own SEO by removing access to its content.