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.

  • @flukeEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    Probably some sort of rich person scheme that he can do whereby if his multi-billion dollar mistake ends up being a failure he can write it off and no longer be on the hook for it or something.

    Like bankruptcy, but only for twitter and not himself.

    • ShustOneEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      He can’t write off 44 billion though, he would get a tiny fraction of that and there are debts to pay back to investors.

      • @flukeEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        I don’t think he’s interested ingetting it back, just to no longer be on the hook for it. I’m sure there’s no doubt various loopholes that he can use to wiggle out of the full consequences of his stupidity and hubris.

        • ShustOneEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          So when you do a write off you still are responsible for that money. It’s not declaring bankruptcy, it’s just lowering your taxable income due to loss. So “write-off” doesn’t really make much sense in this context.

          • @flukeEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Maybe not the correct ‘legal’ term. But it’s splitting hairs really.

            He wants rid of his serious burden. And imagine he thinks that he can do that if he kills the platform. Instead of being on the hook for 44billion with the repayments and interest attributed to that every month, he can cut that down to a fraction.

            I’m not saying I have any idea how it works, or even if it’s possible. Mainly that I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

        • @ShardikprimeEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          You can’t just say write off and expect anything to happen