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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
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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.

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[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 3 points 2 years ago

Now we need to do the same thing with YouTube and Twitch

[-] usbpc@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

That would be nice, but is at a whole other scale with bandwidth and storage space.

Although there is a fediverse alternative for Video Hosting: https://joinpeertube.org/

[-] kofe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Are there any for video/voice chat similar to discord? I feel like there are split opinions on it as a platform as they've made so many changes with community servers, plus their early association to Charlottesville obviously leaves concerns...but there's definitely tons of wholesome groups where I've made life-long friends. I love that it's remained ad free but don't see that lasting

[-] usbpc@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

There is https://matrix.org/ but the video/voice isn’t as nice as discord.

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