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...
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.
Some years ago most people would say this is positive. Mostly due to the fact that now someone trying to check what you’ve been saying on Twitter will have a harder time doing that. (Will need to search you actually on Twitter instead of just going to Google).
Also, the Twitter view limits it’s just to prevent scraping by third parties. Saves money to Twitter but also ultimately makes life harder on companies who are trying to feed information from Twitter to their AIs. The Twitter Blue subscription it’s a good source of revenue for Twitter as well helps them filter out the bad users. Some years ago some people would also find that a good idea. Who remembers the phrase “If it’s free YOU’RE THE PRODUCT”, well now it isn’t completely free right?
One point everyone forgets about is that, Musk bought Twitter as is. He made the company private and suddenly the company started losing money like hell? No. Company before he buying it wasn’t sustainable at all hence he needed to fire most of its workforce for it to actually start being sustainable. Twitter as a company was employing a lot of useless people and was burning investor money every month. When investor money stopped going in (Twitter going private) suddenly a liquidity problem appears.
Also don’t even get me started on the fact that when Musk took over suddenly many of the issues plaguing Twitter were fixed. For example, Twitter had a bot problem, every post about crypto was plagued with bots trying to get you to invest in their crap. Musk fixed that only in a few weeks and removed most bots from the social network. Why? Well, he doesn’t need the user base to look bigger to investors.
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Some years ago most people would say this is positive. Mostly due to the fact that now someone trying to check what you’ve been saying on Twitter will have a harder time doing that. (Will need to search you actually on Twitter instead of just going to Google).
Also, the Twitter view limits it’s just to prevent scraping by third parties. Saves money to Twitter but also ultimately makes life harder on companies who are trying to feed information from Twitter to their AIs. The Twitter Blue subscription it’s a good source of revenue for Twitter as well helps them filter out the bad users. Some years ago some people would also find that a good idea. Who remembers the phrase “If it’s free YOU’RE THE PRODUCT”, well now it isn’t completely free right?
One point everyone forgets about is that, Musk bought Twitter as is. He made the company private and suddenly the company started losing money like hell? No. Company before he buying it wasn’t sustainable at all hence he needed to fire most of its workforce for it to actually start being sustainable. Twitter as a company was employing a lot of useless people and was burning investor money every month. When investor money stopped going in (Twitter going private) suddenly a liquidity problem appears.
Also don’t even get me started on the fact that when Musk took over suddenly many of the issues plaguing Twitter were fixed. For example, Twitter had a bot problem, every post about crypto was plagued with bots trying to get you to invest in their crap. Musk fixed that only in a few weeks and removed most bots from the social network. Why? Well, he doesn’t need the user base to look bigger to investors.