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.

  • Emanresu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    183·
    1 year ago

    I’m picking at nits here… but

    This sounds a lot like Hanlon’s razor. “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

    Are you really suggesting that no action has ever been malicious that seems stupid? Copying people on the internet doesn’t make youtheir idea right lol. I personally believe that phrase is damaging and possibly propaganda in origin, same as “absolute power corrupts absolutely”

    As for the other things you said, I think you can both be correct at the same time.

    • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Well said. Razors are guides in developing theories, not evidence. To present them as evidence is a fallacy. The above conjecture isn’t better explained by stupidity, thats the whole point.

    • Varixable@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thank you. I think this is an important nit to pick in the context of this particular discussion.

      Ignoring the evidence of Musk’s Twitter nonsense benefiting the same people who helped fund his Twitter buy out is something you could attribute Hanlon’s razor to.