Twitter made some ‘changes’ in the backend over the last three days that caused a lot of commotion on social media platforms. Users will temporarily have a limit on the number of tweets they can read and the company also brought a sudden change to TweetDeck, a tool used by several media organisations. However, these changes have also hit tweets discovery on Google Search.
According to a report by The Verge, Google is aware of its limited ability to show Twitter results.
“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 was quoted as saying.
“Websites have control over whether crawlers can access their content,” Levin added.
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Why Twitter made ‘changes’
Over the weekend, Twitter first made it mandatory for users to log in or create an account in order to see content on the microblogging platform. The company owner Elon Musk said that this was done because Twitter data was being scraped by “several hundred organisations” that was “affecting the real user experience.”
“We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” he said in a tweet.
“Several hundred organisations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience,” the Tesla CEO explained in another.
Later, Musk announced that the company was introducing reading limits in a tiered fashion: subscribers, non-subscribers and new non-subscribers. On July 2, Musk announced that the cap on reading tweets on the platform is 10,000 for verified, 1000 for unverified and 500 for new unverified accounts.
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Twitter co-founder and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey supported Musk’s handling of the company.
“Running Twitter is hard. I don’t wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints they have, which are immense,” he tweeted.
“It’s easy to critique the decisions from afar…which I’m guilty of…but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will,” Dorsey added.
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