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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DevCat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] graphite@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

decimates

Twitter absolutely DESTROYED by RATE LIMITING and ELON

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Um actually 🤓 decimating it would be 47 million links 🤓 not 227 million

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] Bobsyouruncle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It does if people use it correctly

[–] null_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bobsyouruncle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hah hah! Oh wait...

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You’ve fallen victim to one of the classic blunders

[–] graphite@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] regular_human@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

proscriptivists btfo lmao

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Good goob, booby froob.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Windexhammer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Well that's what happens when you don't want to pay the bills.