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.

  • 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.