Google/Twitter (CBS) - Google launched a new social search feature Tuesday in which users had to option to switch to "personal results." A neat video was released and life moved on, so we thought.

Index count dropping. On Friday, right shortly after Twitter blocked unregistered users from seeing public tweets, I took a screenshot of a site command in Google Search for Twitter.

Google Inc. (GOOGL) and Twitter (TWTR) reached a deal per which Google will gain full access to data from user tweets and can index them in search results once again.

Since October 2009, Twitter has provided Google with the stream of public tweets for incorporation into their real-time search product and other uses. That agreement has now expired.

The Verge also reported that indexed Twitter URLs in Google search between Friday, June 30, 2023, and Monday, July 3, 2023, for "site:twittter.com" fell from 471 million results to 180 million.

Twitter URLs indexed by Friday to today went from about 471 million URLs to 227 million, a drop of about 52%. I wonder what type of impact this has on its traffic from Google Search, if any.

When you clicked to view Google’s cache in the rogue search result for Twitter, an entirely different Twitter account showed up. Then Martin MacDonald (@searchmartin) stepped in.

Google's search crawlers were affected by these limits, resulting in Twitter losing over 2200 keywords from page one of Google. Twitter's ability to recover depends on how quickly it addresses the ...

SEL noted over 470 million results in Search from Twitter at the end of last week, a number that’s since dropped to under 200 million. We performed a similar search and saw just over 350 million ...

It seems like Google took action by removing the Twitter boxes from the Google search results. In fact, I cannot see that Twitter box, with the carousel of recent tweets from anyone who normally ...