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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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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've heard of a "walled garden".
But this... this has become a "walled right-wing dumpster".

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A "walled swamp",

What's there not to like?!

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[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] Pissy_Badger@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That post image.

Is it just me, or is Elon looking more and more like a movie villain as time goes by?

[–] Instigate@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I keep seeing it used for media articles because it's fucking perfect and accurately displays his disdain for the poors. The fact that anyone with less than a billion dollars in net value thinks he cares about them is both baffling and hilarious.

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[–] dr_doomscroller@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

shirley this has nothing to do with the massive outstanding bill twitter owes to google cloud

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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Ah, that's gonna sting. Google is still most people's gateway to finding stuff.

[–] Hypx@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

For one thing, this is sad because even more of the Internet is no longer reachable. The Internet shrinks, and will continue to get smaller as enshittification continues.

But on the other hand, this is really starting to look like the death knell of Twitter. It's quickly becoming extremely inconvenient to see any tweets on Twitter now.

[–] nikolqy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Obviously, this is political and dangerous, and Musk should send a letter to HQ telling them to, well, go to sleep and just not wake up. Google knows exactly what they're doing. We already know Google has blacklisted Truth and Rumble, and other sites it doesn't like, and they're about to do it to Twitter. They didn't do this to Reddit when it went private. Also, if you don't believe me, use Bing and search for Truth and Rumble and everything is correctly indexed, then look at Google, and it doesn't index hardly anything.

I've been saying for a while now that Google is one of the most dangerous companies in the world, and one of the most partisan if anything.

If you think I'm being dramatic, just look at some leaked footage to understand how this company operates. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6162889/Leaked-Google-conference-video-shows-founder-comparing-Trump-voters-extremists.html

I won't even mention their news tab, advertising business, insanely biased search results or anything like that, but google in its entirety is an insanely dangerous company that takes action based on their political beliefs, and because of the scale of Twitter and Google, it's definitely discrimination and shouldn't be tolerated. I'm just happy that Google is getting less popular every day.

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