Tweets don’t show up in Google results as often due to changes to Twitter

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Google can’t display Twitter tweets and pages in search results as effectively as usual due to changes to Twitter, according to a statement released to The Verge. We understand that our ability to crawl Twitter.com has been limited, impacting our ability to display tweets and pages from the site in search results, said spokeswoman Lara Levin. Websites have control over whether crawlers can access their content.

Over the past few days, Twitter has made some major changes to the visibility of tweets on the site. On Friday, it began blocking unregistered users from browsing tweets, and on Saturday, it introduced temporary limits on the number of tweets people can read in a day. Given Levin’s statement, it appears the changes also had some effect on how Google crawls Twitter.

In my very unscientific remarks on Monday, I saw far fewer search results that include a carousel of tweets about a particular search; the only search result that shows a consistent one for me is white house (without the quotes). Search Engine Land compared Twitter URLs indexed in Google Search between Friday and Monday, the results certainly indicate something afoot: On Friday, the publication saw Google indexed 471 million results for site:twitter.com, but on Monday it was down to 180 million.

Given that Twitter’s rate limits on tweets are supposed to be temporary, there’s a chance that if those limits lift, we could see the usual amount of tweets in Google search results in the future. Personally, I’m not holding my breath because of this.

Google search results aren’t the only thing that has been dramatically changed by Twitter’s recent changes: TweetDeck was discontinued for many because it removed legacy APIs, so the company hastily launched the new TweetDeck and plans to migrate all . The app, loved by many Twitter power users, will also be available only as a Twitter Blue feature starting in 30 days.

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