https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23903859/x-elon-musk-headlines-links-image-twitter
It’s a very annoying change.
I am tired of hearing about this asshole, at this point c/technology is giving him free publicity.
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.
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???!!!
Oh no, some odd hundred people are giving a guy known by billions free publicity. We should stop, surely that will fix the fascist's grip over millions.
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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yeah sounds like an a11y nightmare, now every thumbnail will look like a youtube thumbnail with block letter all-caps words over it