Twitter links are no longer searchable through Google and I assume soon other search engines anymore.
This functionally means that, unless you are on Twitter already or get a direct link from somewhere else, you cannot search up Twitter results from Google anymore. This has, as should be obvious, extreme and very detrimental effects for discoverability and growth for artists and other content creators, functionally meaning you are now getting basically zero growth from outside the app directly unless you are very known in other areas of the web, which well... stares at various sites exploding, I wouldn't put too much hope on.
Discoverability for new audiences on Twitter for most artists is functionally zero now due to all the changes they have implemented. Any artist staying on Twitter now is legitimately just wasting their time on a dying platform. Those "Twitter-Only" artists are fucked beyond any recognition now, they have ZERO chance and NEED to go to another site to have any chance to get growth.
"But Kry, Twitter still works! You're being over dramatic!"
Twitter barely works right behind all the ridiculous rate limiting, which is a whole issue in of itself that's killing artists. With this update blocking web crawlers for search engines, Twitter is basically a complete walled garden now. Everyone not inside (which is becoming a larger and larger amount of people) will NEVER be inside ever or again. Any artists staying are basically committing career suicide by completely kneecapping all of their possible growth and client pool. And no, don't ask me where to go, even I'm not fully sure yet, but staying on Twitter is a complete and full DEATH SENTENCE for artist careers.
There is no future there, only disappointment.
