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.

  • @Matdan
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    451 year ago

    And Pinterest. I want my quality searches back.

    • @OnlyAStarOnlyTheSea
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      71 year ago

      Use google and add “site:Pinterest.com” then search by images. Works better than Pinterest. Also works for Poshmark.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I think the point is to NOT have pinterest spam your search results that you cannot see without an account.