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.

  • @graphite
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    621 year ago

    decimates

    Twitter absolutely DESTROYED by RATE LIMITING and ELON

      • Zagorath
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        181 year ago

        Um actually a word’s etymology does not define its modern usage. 🤓

          • @null_
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            171 year ago

            Found the language prescriptivist! Linguists, let’s all point and laugh at them!

              • @Shardikprime
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                21 year ago

                You’ve fallen victim to one of the classic blunders

          • @graphite
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            11 year ago

            You do realize that there are multiple definitions for the word “decimate”, yes?

          • @null_
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            01 year ago

            deleted by creator

        • @Etterra
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          -41 year ago

          Except when that word still has a literal meaning which is used by people to represent the original idea.

            • Zagorath
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              01 year ago

              Your first paragraph illustrates the point you were making very well. The last paragraph was absolutely not necessary.

      • @Windexhammer
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        31 year ago

        Um ackshually, decimating only means removing 1/10th, so what happened is actually many times worse than a decimation.