by Sonic1 » Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:22 pm
nerdlinger wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 5:49 pm
“Opinion”? I’m not defending Musk at all, but it’s very well established from the year dot that Google only indexes sites that it has access to. When Twitter put up a read limit Google stopped being able to index it, simple as that.
The author of that tweet is trying to characterise it as some sort of aggressive power play on Google’s part, when there’s no reason to believe any such thing happened.
You are 100% right. Apologies. Thanks for adding context to your previous comment as I am ever leery of "reader opinion" on that site. Did some digging and found that Twitter had resumed it's cloud payments soon after it was publicly announced they had missed their June payment. Here's some further context regarding the validity of the original assertations: " "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."
The Facts
Twitter users reported outages Saturday morning into the afternoon, according to DownDetector.com as changes were made. Reports began increasing around 8 a.m. ET and at roughly 11 a.m. ET. Many users received an error message reading "rate limit exceeded," referring to the number of tweets that can be viewed.
Musk initially announced the limitations as being lower before amending those numbers. He first said that unverified accounts would be limited to 600, new unverified accounts to 300, and verified users to 6,000 tweets per day.
Although LeGate and Rivero did not include a link to a verified statement about the effect this may have had at Google, the search engine giant has stated that it has seen an effect in its ability to crawl for tweets, hinting the reason was linked to recent changes at Twitter.
In a statement to The Verge, Google spokesperson Lara Levin said: "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,
"Websites have control over whether crawlers can access their content."
Levin confirmed to Newsweek that Google had not taken any action to remove tweets.
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“Opinion”? I’m not defending Musk at all, but it’s very well established from the year dot that Google only indexes sites that it has access to. When Twitter put up a read limit Google stopped being able to index it, simple as that.
The author of that tweet is trying to characterise it as some sort of aggressive power play on Google’s part, when there’s no reason to believe any such thing happened.
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You are 100% right. Apologies. Thanks for adding context to your previous comment as I am ever leery of "reader opinion" on that site. Did some digging and found that Twitter had resumed it's cloud payments soon after it was publicly announced they had missed their June payment. Here's some further context regarding the validity of the original assertations: " "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."
The Facts
Twitter users reported outages Saturday morning into the afternoon, according to DownDetector.com as changes were made. Reports began increasing around 8 a.m. ET and at roughly 11 a.m. ET. Many users received an error message reading "rate limit exceeded," referring to the number of tweets that can be viewed.
Musk initially announced the limitations as being lower before amending those numbers. He first said that unverified accounts would be limited to 600, new unverified accounts to 300, and verified users to 6,000 tweets per day.
Although LeGate and Rivero did not include a link to a verified statement about the effect this may have had at Google, the search engine giant has stated that it has seen an effect in its ability to crawl for tweets, hinting the reason was linked to recent changes at Twitter.
In a statement to The Verge, Google spokesperson Lara Levin said: "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,
"Websites have control over whether crawlers can access their content."
Levin confirmed to Newsweek that Google had not taken any action to remove tweets.