Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets - Lemmy.world

>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.