Google Search Showing 50% Fewer Twitter URLs After Twitter Blocked Unregistered Users
On Friday afternoon, Twitter decided to block unregistered, signed-out users, from seeing public tweets. That meant that for Google’s normal crawling purposes, it was unable to see some of these tweets. It seems that Google now has about 52% fewer Twitter URLs in its index today than it had on Friday, just a few days later.
While we know the site command is not the most accurate measure of what Google has indexed, we don’t have many other free tools to measure how many pages Google indexed of a site that we do not have Search Console level access to. So I decided to screen capture how many pages Google indexed of Twitter.com on Friday, right after the block started.
On Friday, June 30th at about 1pm ET, Twitter had 471 million URLs indexed in Google Search according to this site command: