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.

  • @KrivEnglish
    84•1 year ago

    Ahh the genius that is Elon Musk, I’m sure we’re all cowering at his superior intellect.

    • redcalciumEnglish
      72•1 year ago

      Tesla and SpaceX must be full of smart people if they can succeed despite Elon Musk shenanigans.

      • jecxjoEnglish
        41•1 year ago

        That is literally the complaint from ex-employees of his companies. He is Tony Stark meets Michael Scott. So much money it compensates for sheer stupidity.

        • @kescusayEnglish
          16•1 year ago

          I have never heard a more perfect description of Elon Musk.

          • @didnt_readitEnglish
            0•1 year ago

            Did we see the same show? Micheal Scott is incredibly cruel all the time and his heart is rarely in the right place lol

      • BriongloidEnglish
        32•1 year ago

        Literally all you need is enough money and you can pay smart people to do impressive things, while taking all the credit.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•1 year ago

        SpaceX has a lot to benefit from the fact that a lot of people love the idea of working with rockets but the actual job market was very limited with places like NASA only taking the best of the best. Which doesn’t mean SpaceX has subpar engineers and scientists, humanity just has a lot more to offer than NASA and other smaller space agencies could afford to employ.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      It’s absolutely beyond me why these idiots don’t pay people to think of clever things and discourage dumb things.

      Imagine having your own “think tank”, it works be like living life on cheat mode.

      • @[email protected]English
        19•1 year ago

        Smart rich people have advisors they listen to.

        Rich people who are too “smart” to listen to advice have sycophants.

      • @[email protected]English
        26•1 year ago

        I read a quote somewhere from a former Space X engineer that they basically had to create a system to manage Musk and his fragile ego so that they can function normally without Musk getting in the way.

        • MeldrocEnglish
          13•1 year ago

          So basically, Gwynne Shotwell is the one actually calling the day-to-day shots, and happens to be a good Elon-whisperer.

          I wonder if other companies, particularly VC-funded ones, have staff dedicated to “managing” the crazy person with the checkbook…

        • @[email protected]English
          3•1 year ago

          So it takes rocket scientists to manage this guy in such a way to keep him from burning everything down around him?

          You’re probably right. And it’s wild to think that safely flying astronauts to the ISS probably wasn’t the hardest part of their day that day.

      • @BradleyUffnerEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        He didn’t create SpaceX, he bought it.