X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better
X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better
It’s a very annoying change.
I am tired of hearing about this asshole, at this point c/technology is giving him free publicity.
Given the upvote/comment ratio of this post it seems many of us are doing our part.
As long as they are true updates to the idiocy Musk is unleashing, I'm all for it. Consider the cavalcade of bad press a somewhat necessary evil.
Honestly I'm still being amused by these decisions.
Don’t engage in posts bearing his name. The tactic works well. We should all do it.
0 comments on Elon posts who’s with me???!!!
Yep and the verge has morphed into the At Least One EM Story A Day site.
remember how many years ago most news sites morphed into At least one DT story a day sites?
Every decision he makes only hastens Twitter's demise.
Which seems intentional at this point.
There was mention that he had one more appeal on the SEC ruling a while back. My thoughts were he was banking on getting the SEC ruling reversed and giving them back a broken company.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
X, formerly Twitter, is no longer showing headlines on articles shared on the platform.
Instead, X is only showing the article’s lead image and the domain it will link you to.
Fortune reported in August that this change was in the works, and X owner Elon Musk confirmed that the switchover was “coming from me directly” and would “greatly improve the esthetics [sic].” That leads me to believe that the headlines will be disappearing from the web and Android eventually.
Musk has recently been encouraging users to post more content to X directly in an effort to help boost engagement on the platform (and perhaps also because he “almost never” reads “legacy news anymore”).
He’s also said that the platform’s algorithm “tries to optimize time spent on X,” meaning that “links don’t get as much attention” and that the “best thing is to post content in long form on this platform.”
In my opinion, removing headlines makes X harder to use — posts are less easy to parse at a glance — so I’m not sure if this change is going to lead to people posting more often like Musk hopes.
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I wonder if this might have some limited effect on clickbait headlines.
Strong incentive for clickbait thumbnails.
yeah sounds like an a11y nightmare, now every thumbnail will look like a youtube thumbnail with block letter all-caps words over it