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.
I saw the result with 227 million earlier, but I just checked again and now it’s 648 million. Odd.
It might be catching and data mirrioring. When you run something as large as google there are hundreds of servers that need to be synced. Deleting large chunks of data can take an extremely long time to propagate.
Pretty sure that number doesn’t mean shit anyway.
I’m currently seeing 287 million and 0.4 seconds.
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I’m seeing 229M. It seems to be cache at the moment causing discrepancies.
I don’t think it’s BS necessarily - I saw the exact same number they reported earlier in the day. I just don’t think that number is as consistent or meaningful as the author thinks it is.