DOOM: Twitter's panic-driven rate-limiting gets them dropped out of Google Search | Boing Boing
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Fisticuffs enthusiast and noted “Pedo Guy,” Elon Musk announced drastic rate-limiting policies on Twitter last week. Purportedly rate-limiting is evidence of Tekonoking battling with &#…
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The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

That’s exactly what is happening now.

It feels like the internet is on fire but the firemen hooked their hoses into a gas pump

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I might be enjoying all of this a little too much.

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I would be enjoying it more if it wasn’t bought, paid for, and orchestrated by Saudi Arabia in an effort to suppress free speech and democracy.

Love to see this but the article is written by a kid

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Do you mean to tell me that a website called “boing boing” isn’t only written by the utmost professional of journalists?

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sad Cory Doctorow vibes

This is it….after a year of waiting for the implosion of twitter…the other shoe is finally dropping

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They probably fired all their SEO engineers.

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Bro, what’s Twitter? I only use Mastadon instances

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Anti-SEO, brilliant.

Why does that page read like a personal attack? Don’t get me wrong, with his latest blunders, I don’t like Elon either; but this “article” seems too unprofessional to cite here to me.

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Are you really questioning the journalistic integrity of boingboing. net?

What is this world coming to…

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It’s just an editorialization of https://www.rawstory.com/google-twitter/

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I don’t think google is doing that on purpose. Search engines are supposed to remove dead links once in a while. And twitter redirecting all links to the login page, so it’s effectively making duplicate results on google, which are removed. I think that’s why google doesn’t have too many Linkedin results.

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