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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    1 year ago

    Honestly, and I hate this, but I doubt they will. The majority of people will never go federated, even though it’s so easy, because they suck.

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      1 year ago

      It’s the difference between a mom and pop restaurant and McDonald’s.

      We don’t need everybody to go to the mom and pop restaurant. Just enough of us to keep it afloat.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe, I’m a bit more optimistic though. I think even if they just did something like a read only service that pulls from other federated sources like their web crawlers do for regular sites they would basically be done.

      The only concern there would be people trying to block them like everyone has been doing to Meta.