Twitter: New rate limits, is crypto communication in danger?

Twitter’s exposure on Google plummets as Elon Musk announces temporary limits. New strategy or not, what’s the point? While these questions are pertinent, only one attracts the attention of the crypto community. What will happen to communication within the ecosystem?

Twitter loses visibility on Google

Twitter is a benchmark in terms of social networking. Along with Facebook and Instagram, they enable ideas and opinions to be shared. But what if the community no longer has access to most messages? Indeed, Twitter’s new throughput limits are causing quite a stir.

As Web Search Engine Land points out, the number of tweets indexed on Google has dropped by over 60% in just a few days. This represents more than half of all activity on the microblogging site, which has fallen from 471 million messages to just 180 million.

However, the search engine is not to blame for this, but the bluebird company itself. This drop in visibility is due to the fact that Google can no longer crawl all the URLs coming from Twitter because of the limitation, claims 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.

It’s a decision, yes, but what impact will it have on cryptography?

Elon Musk, Twitter’s executive chairman, decided to limit throughput in order to redirect non-connected users. While this choice may seem optimal to him, it’s not the case for everyone, in this case the crypto community. The crypto community has a strong presence on the social network, and relies on it to communicate and share information.

In this new configuration, the amount of cryptocurrency-related content on Google will also be on the decline.

As the saying goes, one man’s loss is another man’s gain. While Twitter loses visibility, Mastodon, its decentralized rival, records an increase in activity. As if that weren’t enough, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is set to launch Threads this week, a potential Twitter rival. Crypto enthusiasts may soon find another alternative.