Elon Musk announces temporary limits and Twitter’s exposure to Google plummets. New strategy or not, what is the purpose of the maneuver? Even if these questions are relevant, only one attracts the attention of the crypto community. What about communication in the ecosystem?
Twitter loses visibility on Google
Twitter is part of the reference in terms of social networks. Along with Facebook and Instagram, they make it possible to share ideas and opinions. But what if the community no longer has access to most messages? Indeed, Twitter’s new throughput limits are causing a lot of ink and saliva to flow.
As the note Web Search Engine Land, the number of tweets indexed on Google fell by more than 60% in a few days. This represents more than half of the activity on the microblogging site, which fell from 471 million messages to only 180 million.
However, this is not the work of the search engine, but of the company with the blue bird logo. This drop in visibility comes from the fact that Google can no longer crawl all URLs coming from Twitter because of the limitation, affirms a Google spokesperson. Indeed, Elon Musk announced on July 2 that the company will temporarily impose daily limits on the number of messages that can be read. But this decision is far from pleasing the crypto community.
A decision yes, but what impact on cryptography?
Elon Musk, the executive chairman of Twitter, decides to limit the flow in order to redirect users who are not logged in. If this choice seems optimal to him, it is not the case for everyone, in this case the crypto community. The latter, very present on the social network, relies on it to communicate and share information.
In this new setup, the amount of cryptocurrency-related content will also be down on Google.
As we usually say, the misfortune of some is the happiness of others. While Twitter is losing visibility, Mastodon, its decentralized rival, is seeing an increase in activity. As if that weren’t enough, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is set to launch Threads this week, a potential rival to Twitter. It could be that crypto followers will soon find another alternative.
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