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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126 points

The latest in a seemingly never-ending series of self-owns. Apart from the stress it must put on their devs, it’s been entertaining

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4 points

Twitter still has devs?

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Twitter’s dev(s)

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37 points

They have more than one dev left?

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My understanding is there’s group of people whose visa is sponsored by Twitter. If they leave the company, they may well have to leave the country.

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That’s a big yikes and I hope they will find another way…

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No it’s just one guy called Dev.

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And he’s on a H1B visa and can’t leave.

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Dude was just a marketing intern and is mad stressed and knows he’s in WAY over his head now.

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They screwed up his name tag, because reasons.

His name is actually Dave. But there aren’t any other Dave’s working there anymore so he is ok with being called Dev.

Deb on the other hand is pretty pissed off.

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Please kindly accept my upvote - made my day!

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Yeah, he lives in the break room on a cot.

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