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.
It’s funny how Spez idolizes a guy who doesn’t pay his bills. It’s also funny watching the hate pplatform Twitter get absolutely destroyed by its owner. The internet in 2023 is a wild and crazily changing place.
I’m enjoying watching Twitter go up in flames in real time. 🍿
Testing testing
I guess that’s what happens when you don’t pay your hosting fees.
#BoycottGoogle #BoycottMusk #BoycottBillionaires
Queue the person on the forums telling you that it’s your fault and not the search engine because somehow you’re doing it wrong.
“person”
Sorry for off topic, but what is rawstory? It’s on some tracking blocklist and that url is funny. Although it looks just like any other news site.
Left-leaning, mostly accurate, sensation stories.
It’s a left-wing news outlet. I don’t think there’s anything malicious there in terms of security.
Ehh, I get ~3 pages of 3rd party crap, most of which is on block lists. Red = explicitly blocked, 3rd party scripts and XHR blocked by default (I do also block google.com, gstatic.com and facebook.com whenever they’re a 3rd party, but every other red domain is considered dodgy by default).
uMatrix FTW
Edit: Also I should say that if I were to enable things more stuff would almost certainly load up.
That’s a fact of any news site these days.
Btw uBlock on FF + Rethink DNS ftw
These blocklists are wack sometimes, I need to keep adding exceptions…
Usually when I get a warning of that sort, I manually retype the url for safety’s sake, or double-check the site on Wikipedia or Whois it. There may be some characters that look identical to others. Article on it.
Good point. Btw this is Rethink DNS on my phone with a ton of active blocklists, which are quite often overzealous… So then I visit the url in Tor Browser instead.
The article quotes their source as https://www.seroundtable.com/twitter-google-search-drop-35648.html, which are just showing the decrease in search results each day on Google for
site:twitter.com.Some block lists will include newly registered or rarely visited domains.
People with power shouldn’t be allowed any control over platforms that give power to “the people”. I believe this is all intentional. If it was just Twitter, or just Reddit, or just 1 TV network, I wouldn’t think that but they’re sabotaging all the mainstream platforms at once and making it incredibly obvious. They’re trying to collapse our means of communication ahead of 2024.
There’s no way to prove or disprove this idea
Is that a Jimmy Hoffa quote? It’s not even true. If recordings popped up of them saying the quite part out loud, wouldn’t that be proof? There’s no hard evidence for a lot of ideas that are clearly true and should influence peoples decisions going forward. If we didn’t do that, we’d all be dead at the hands of people that think that line absolves them from any accountability from anyone. Terrible people aren’t dumb, they know what they shouldn’t say out loud, and they know what to say when their actions expose the truth, doesn’t mean we all have to keep them in our lives until they’re proven shitty in a court of law, that’s how domestic murder victims get made.
I don’t know who that is, but that idea comes from creating testable hypothesis.
I am genuinely curious. What’s the role of the new CEO if this turd keeps doing everything he can to burn this ish to the ground?
I am genuinely curious. What’s the role of the new CEO if this turd keeps doing everything he can to burn this ish to the ground?
I am genuinely curious. What’s the role of the new CEO if this turd keeps doing everything he can to burn this ish to the ground?
Ah, that’s gonna sting. Google is still most people’s gateway to finding stuff.
What would be a good search engine alternative?
I don’t know, I’m one of the google-using lemmings. Somebody else can prob answer though.
Google is fine.
Duckduckgo if you want an alt.
This morning, I needed to use image search for a bit and basically 4/5 links leading to Twitter wouldn’t load for various reasons. That was not on Google, but I imagine, they have (had) similar problems.
Well, and for normal search, Twitter results are completely worthless to me, as I don’t have an account. So, at this rate, no results from Twitter would be the optimum.
