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.

  • @MBM@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    astroturfed strawmanned groups such as extinction rebellion

    What’s wrong with XR?

    • @Piers@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      People who aren’t going to do anything either way like to blame XR’s protests for their own inaction.

      • @Emanresu@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        I’ve thought long and hard about why we fail to make change and I’ve thought about whats best and most reasonable within my own personality, skills and weaknesses. For me, I need to refine my views and then spread awareness, while also reducing our wasted efforts because of false consciousness. Do you want to suddenly become aware that you wasted years of your life to a false idea or would you rather some annoying rando accuse you of having in a false idea, then think about it honestly and reject the false idea years earlier?

        As an example. Lots of people fell victim to what you suggest… nazi philosophy was painted as “we have the cure! just blindly follow our legit seeming propaganda” and then people acted instead of thinking… you know what happened after. People like me were trying to deprogram nazis but then we had to run or got holocausted. Also, do you notice how National socialism has a strange… misdirection that doesn’t line up with its stated name? MEGAHINT HINT. also tankies cough cough

        What do you think is wrong with conservatives? They work hard for the values they haven’t investigated

        You are absolutely right about us needing to take action, i just worry the average person will be super counterproductive with all the noise intended to misguide us.

    • @Emanresu@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I would have explained in more detail before but its hard to write a small book each reply haha. I’m glad you asked. So with XR there are a ton of things I can say but I’ll probably ramble, so my apologies.

      XR popped up at a time when revolutionary energies especially around the idea of climate apocalype type emergencies were at a local high. They openly stated in their website or whatevs that they allow police and landlords which if you are in the know, you know. Landlords and police are some of the most primary enablers of the climate apocalypse and capitalistic evils. Then there’s their method of making change, which if you watch mass media, shows that they glue their unshaved armpits to the road or paintings, in the most “hate me, hate us” type of way possible. Effective climate activism doesn’t come in the form of “hate us” activism, it comes in the form of making leaflets and dropping them in a thousand mailboxes, making community groups to discuss and spread truth about our govts complicity and support of negative and increasing changes that are damming us etc etc. I could list a lot more… ugh :(

      Each step of XRs path helped them to pass law after law to reduce our legal rights to protest while also making the general population hate protest+climate activists. Imagine getting blocked from getting to work by what the idiot box calls hippies. You’d slowly hate your heroes. Unfortunately lots of unthinkers fell into the XR bandwagon, even myself to some degree before i realised they allowed cops and had expensive non representing their base(humans) matching signs and uniforms. Easiest way to spot astroturfed groups is money spent on media like signs and uniforms. Any legit group will be censored to hell and will struggle to even have a website up.

      Sorry for the mess.