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.

  • OldSchoolMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    This. This baffles me. How he was able to run a company which makes rockets which shuttles between earth and outerspace?

    • mstrbassist@lemm.eeEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      I read a quote somewhere from a former Space X engineer that they basically had to create a system to manage Musk and his fragile ego so that they can function normally without Musk getting in the way.

      • Meldroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        So basically, Gwynne Shotwell is the one actually calling the day-to-day shots, and happens to be a good Elon-whisperer.

        I wonder if other companies, particularly VC-funded ones, have staff dedicated to “managing” the crazy person with the checkbook…

      • kobra@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        So it takes rocket scientists to manage this guy in such a way to keep him from burning everything down around him?

        You’re probably right. And it’s wild to think that safely flying astronauts to the ISS probably wasn’t the hardest part of their day that day.