July 4, 2023

The Twitter-Google battle

 Omar RiveroTwitter owner Elon Musk is hit with more devastating news as Google drops bombshell, retaliates against Twitter for Musk’s decisions to limit the amount of tweets that users can read per day and force users to log in just to view a single tweet. Google punished Musk and Twitter by removing the vast majority of Twitter’s links from its search results — a move that will make Twitter virtually invisible on the world’s largest and most popular search engine. 

Analysts just revealed that Google has already removed a whopping 52% of Twitter’s links in only two days — and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. One industry analyst even declared that, “it seems like Tweets are falling out of the sky” on Google. Reporters are speculating that the reason for Google’s harsh retaliation against Twitter is probably related to the fact that Musk recklessly decided not to pay its Google Cloud Services bill last month — a move that puts Twitter’s future in even further peril.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like this wasn’t Google’s choice: “We’re aware that our ability to crawl Twitter.com has been limited, affecting our ability to display tweets and pages from the site in search results,”spokesperson Lara Levin said. “Websites have control over whether crawlers can access their content.”’
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23783153/google-twitter-tweets-changes-rate-limits

Anonymous said...


Ohhh... So that is why I haven't been able to open Twitter LINKs from Progressive Review - undernews article...