TiffinAndTea

[⚡︎ @_sorrengailll]

Dear @apple,
I don’t know what is going on with your damn keyboard, but I have NEVER in the 19 years of owning iPhones, had to backspace, retype, start over, correct words as much as I am now! And what happened to autocorrect!? Is that not a thing anymore? Please fix this!

[misbah 🍉 @misbahilarious]

IT WORKS!!! IT REALLY WORKS!!!! READING LAST TWO AYAHS OF SURAH BAQARAH WILL HELP YOU WAKE UP FOR FAJR EVEN IF YOU SLEEP LATE!!! IT WORKS!!

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

[Peter Twinklage @PeterTwinklage]

i’ve never quite understood this specific form of racism. America and Western countries have all sorts of food we eat with our hands! hamburgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, chicken wings, PIZZA, ribs, muffins, burritos, French fries, doughnuts, popcorn, etc. like, are you dumb?

[TiffinAndTea @TiffinAndTea]

@weenell3 Sainsburys belgian cooking chocolate has gone up from 1.10 to 2.30.

[Nell McFurtado @weenell3]

I was in Tesco on Sunday, and a pack of 4 apples was £2.00.
I was in earlier tonight and they're now £2.50.
And remember the wee boxes of Maltesers which used tae be £1.50, they're now £3.00.
I'm calling out the corporate greed!

[• @Alhamdhulillaah]

Listen and repost so it will be a sadaqah for him ❤️

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

This tweet has gone viral and we all know why. No matter what Google claims, people don’t like AI Overviews. No matter what Meta claims, no one wants to watch an endless scroll of AI slop video. And no matter what X claims, only maladjusted creeps like its founder think anime girlfriends are cool.

[Jess Magdefrau @JessMagdefrau]

Popular opinion: mocktails should not cost the same as cocktails

[Goog Enough @Goog_Enough]

87% of top-ranking pages contain AI content, according to a new Ahrefs report. If Google continues like this, Google’s AI will quote other AI, which will in turn quote Google’s AI, and we will have a never-ending circle of hallucinations and “facts” no one can trust.

[HouseFresh @ThisHouseFresh]

We spent weeks researching air purifiers we reviewed to determine whether Google Search results and AI Overviews are leading consumers to good advice.

Our analysis shows that AIO will likely recommend buying whatever you show interest in, even if the product doesn’t exist.

[MIKE Hardaker @mountainweekly]

My reddit post has been seen over 239,000 times in less than 48 hours. Perhaps there are lots of people still unaware. Gonna take me a while to respond the comments. The people messaging me SEO services is neat. Ha

[Nate Hake @natejhake]

AI companies will spend ungodly sums on literally *anything* -- except paying copyright holders

[Jeremy Knauff @jeremyknauff]

The people have spoken. No one believes Google.

[Goog Enough @Goog_Enough]

Google wants you to believe Reddit traffic skyrocketed because there’s just that much user demand. The truth is Reddit traffic went up ~200% after they inked a deal with Google. Google is clearly boosting Reddit’s visibility artificially, so the results should be labeled as ADS!

[Nate Hake @natejhake]

Remind me again why Google can’t afford to pay for its AI training data?

[Dan @Okayy_Dan]

Looking back, can you believe that Google released an algorithm claiming it was about "Helpfulness" that destroyed entire industries of small—to medium-sized businesses overnight? The guidance around this algorithm was vague and absurdly subjective, which meant no one had an agreeable methodology.

Can you also believe that following this, a large section of the SEO community then spoke to these same businesses, telling them that they need to use their services, quickly, or they will not recover because their site is not "helpful" enough?

And then, when no sites recovered, two Google employees, with good reputations (at the time), gaslighted businesses into believing there was a road to recovery and that the websites were simply not "helpful" enough based on highly subjective and empty advice.

And then, can you also believe that a large section of the SEO community gaslighted the same businesses, supporting Google's impossible stance, while at the same time, taking their clients' money despite no recoveries?

Can you also believe that following this, despite it being flagrantly clear that the 2023 algorithms were designed to destroy businesses, Google apparently "folded" the very same algorithm that killed businesses, into the core algorithm, so no-one could conveniently track and prove what happened—and with this, no site could recover because of an infinite classifier—and despite this, their SEO supporters continued to pedal "Helpfulness" as the key?

Following this, once it became clear that the propaganda was not working on businesses, the top Google employees fled X to LinkedIn and Bluesky, claiming they left because of "toxicity" and "Elon Musk," despite their CEO brushing shoulders with Musk and Trump over the advancements of AI.

Can you believe that despite all this, even with Google repeatedly proven in court of law as an illegal monopolistic company carrying out illegal and anti-competitive actions, SEOs still believed them?

Even when large groups of businesses produced countless materials proving the opposite of what Google was saying, they were told by SEOs, who were not subject matter experts in their industry, that their content was not helpful.

Can you believe this really happened? To me, this sounds like the plot of a complex thriller movie because, looking back, it sounds far-fetched.

Looking back, it sounds wild to even repeat what happened.

But it did happen.

[Martin MacDonald @searchmartin]

OK, so the Google position is if your impressions are up, clicks are down, you'll likely get more "conversions" (because of the inclusion in AI overviews).

While this might be true in the context of eCom (we're yet to fully understand the true impact), its utter BULLSHIT for sites that depend on the pageviews; news sites, content sites, forums, blogs, etc.

This scenario would be avoided if Google weren't reproducing owned content using its GPT, or only displaying it for commercial intent queries - they AREN'T.

They're displaying it for all queries, and if your business was providing content of any type whatsoever your business is now dead in the water.

Image below is borrowed from this post covering the topic over on SERoundtable. Next tweet for more details, and how to get there.