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.

  • @bingbongEnglish
    130•2 years ago

    The latest in a seemingly never-ending series of self-owns. Apart from the stress it must put on their devs, it’s been entertaining

    • daikikiEnglish
      39•2 years ago

      They have more than one dev left?

      • @marswarriorEnglish
        71•2 years ago

        No it’s just one guy called Dev.

        • CalOtsu
          15•2 years ago

          Dude was just a marketing intern and is mad stressed and knows he’s in WAY over his head now.

        • @[email protected]English
          7•2 years ago

          They screwed up his name tag, because reasons.

          His name is actually Dave. But there aren’t any other Dave’s working there anymore so he is ok with being called Dev.

          Deb on the other hand is pretty pissed off.

      • @[email protected]English
        39•2 years ago

        My understanding is there’s group of people whose visa is sponsored by Twitter. If they leave the company, they may well have to leave the country.

          • @baldingpudendaEnglish
            26•2 years ago

            Coercing workers built America! They can’t leave… because of the implication.