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.

  • Dash@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I like this take, but this is a conspiracy theory take. Change a few words and this would be something regurgitated by Q fanatics.

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      You know how conservatives project? Think about it as the truth, but with a small change in detail such as the guilty party renamed to an enemy scapegoat. Now rethink what you said.

      Conspiracy theories that parallel real conspiracies are the best way to stop people thinking about each view on its own merits. They conflate dumb q stuff with the legitimate similar thing and then refuse to engage intellectually. This is why the internet is so noisy. They KNOW that the Streisand effect will be counterproductive so instead they spam dark strawmen and noise until you just tune out because of the difficulty to process information.

      Climate activists drowned out with astroturfed strawmanned groups such as extinction rebellion which de-legitimizes and generates hatred towards activists and allows the passing of totalitarian laws to prevent future protests etc.

      Examples

      • Climate activists -> Extinction rebellion
      • Animal rights activists -> PETA
      • Anarchists -> Sovereign citizens

      In the end you will hate all the legit groups because of the astroturfed false flag strawmen groups.

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        astroturfed strawmanned groups such as extinction rebellion

        What’s wrong with XR?

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          I would have explained in more detail before but its hard to write a small book each reply haha. I’m glad you asked. So with XR there are a ton of things I can say but I’ll probably ramble, so my apologies.

          XR popped up at a time when revolutionary energies especially around the idea of climate apocalype type emergencies were at a local high. They openly stated in their website or whatevs that they allow police and landlords which if you are in the know, you know. Landlords and police are some of the most primary enablers of the climate apocalypse and capitalistic evils. Then there’s their method of making change, which if you watch mass media, shows that they glue their unshaved armpits to the road or paintings, in the most “hate me, hate us” type of way possible. Effective climate activism doesn’t come in the form of “hate us” activism, it comes in the form of making leaflets and dropping them in a thousand mailboxes, making community groups to discuss and spread truth about our govts complicity and support of negative and increasing changes that are damming us etc etc. I could list a lot more… ugh :(

          Each step of XRs path helped them to pass law after law to reduce our legal rights to protest while also making the general population hate protest+climate activists. Imagine getting blocked from getting to work by what the idiot box calls hippies. You’d slowly hate your heroes. Unfortunately lots of unthinkers fell into the XR bandwagon, even myself to some degree before i realised they allowed cops and had expensive non representing their base(humans) matching signs and uniforms. Easiest way to spot astroturfed groups is money spent on media like signs and uniforms. Any legit group will be censored to hell and will struggle to even have a website up.

          Sorry for the mess.

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          People who aren’t going to do anything either way like to blame XR’s protests for their own inaction.