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.
Twitter absolutely DESTROYED by RATE LIMITING and ELON
Um actually 🤓 decimating it would be 47 million links 🤓 not 227 million
Um ackshually, decimating only means removing 1/10th, so what happened is actually many times worse than a decimation.
Um actually a word’s etymology does not define its modern usage. 🤓
It does if people use it correctly
Found the language prescriptivist! Linguists, let’s all point and laugh at them!
Hah hah! Oh wait…
You’ve fallen victim to one of the classic blunders
You do realize that there are multiple definitions for the word “decimate”, yes?
Except when that word still has a literal meaning which is used by people to represent the original idea.
Removed by mod
Your first paragraph illustrates the point you were making very well. The last paragraph was absolutely not necessary.
Calm down