Twitter has faced a challenging security event last Wednesday, prompting the social media company to take down prominent Twitter accounts that were hacked, Search Engine Land reported.
Search engine company has taken down a prominent carousel of tweets on one of the largest social media networks, and with this, it does not appear on the search results anymore.
Tech Times previously reported Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, and Apple, compromised this week on what Twitter said was an attack to its employees through the prominent figures on social media.
The support team of Twitter provided an official statement, saying, "We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools."
The attackers published tweets that cloaked as a cryptocurrency scam, the report added.
"The Twitter search carousel box is not just gone for those accounts that were hacked but gone for any Twitter account. Google has confirmed to have dropped the box completely from the search results," Barry Schwartz wrote.
Is this temporary?
Correspondents from Search Engine Land have inquired if Google will have this temporarily, and if netizens will see the Twitter carousel posts still up and running. A spokesperson confirmed that they are temporarily removing the carousel posts following the security issues.
"Before restoring the feature, we will carry out a careful review," Google told the media.
What are Twitter carousel boxes?
These carousel boxes on Twitter appear when looking of prominent tweets, brand names, and influencers on Google search.
These have been taken down, but since 2015, Twitter has been having these tweets in the search results. Google has been in deals with Twitter prior to the decision in 2011 and even earlier.
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These carousels work to dominate search results strategically among Search Engine Optimization experts and marketers. There are several more examples of Twitter carousels in Google search results.
If you are asking right now if this will last or if Google will remove these, Schwartz, who is also a member of programming teams in events, said, "I doubt it but we did email Google for clarification on this move. It does make sense for Google to remove it, at least temporarily, as we currently need to figure out if we can trust the posts we see on Twitter."
The significance of these is advantageous for those using Twitter as a search strategy, emphasizing that it may go on hold under Google's next steps and action plans are determined
To update on the recent Twitter hack, law enforcement agencies are now probing the security threat. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is joining the investigating team, The Verge reported.
