Rod HiltonJul 4, 2023

I have some insider knowledge here that I wanted to share.

This is not happening because Google scrapes Twitter and is now unable to. Google has been a paying customer (with a special negotiated rate) of the Firehose API for nearly a decade. Presumably, that deal was still in effect, barring API rate changes having an impact.

So this decision is solely because the results can no longer be viewed by non-logged-in users.

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@rodhilton I can't ever recall a time when I searched for something on Google and ended up linking to a tweet, but... being essentially invisible to Google search seems *really bad* for a site as prominent as Twitter.
Jul 5, 2023 at 12:50amWeb