https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...-elon-musk
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has stopped showing headlines for links posted on the site, after site owner Elon Musk said it would make posts look better.
Links posted on Twitter now appear as the image included in the article, as well as text in the left-hand corner of the image noting the domain of the link. If users want to visit the page, they must click the image, but it only appears slightly different to how images uploaded to the site appear.
The change was made on Wednesday for iOS and desktop users. The new appearance appeared not to apply to advertisement links.
The move to remove headlines had been in the works since August. Following Fortune reports about the planned change, Musk tweeted: “This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics.”
Not a fan of this, TBH. A lot of images don't say what the story is: they only give a vague idea of what the story's about. For example, most news stories about Taylor Swift will use a picture of her as their illustration... so, if somebody wanted to share this story on Twitter, their tweet would just look like a picture of Taylor Swift posted without context.
Granted, there's a very easy workaround: just include the headline text within the tweet itself . But that's a backwards step IMO: it means people have to do manually what was previously done automatically. And there's still a further problem: news links have become difficult to distinguish from uploaded images, so it's hard to tell at a glance what's clickable and what isn't!
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has stopped showing headlines for links posted on the site, after site owner Elon Musk said it would make posts look better.
Links posted on Twitter now appear as the image included in the article, as well as text in the left-hand corner of the image noting the domain of the link. If users want to visit the page, they must click the image, but it only appears slightly different to how images uploaded to the site appear.
The change was made on Wednesday for iOS and desktop users. The new appearance appeared not to apply to advertisement links.
The move to remove headlines had been in the works since August. Following Fortune reports about the planned change, Musk tweeted: “This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics.”
Not a fan of this, TBH. A lot of images don't say what the story is: they only give a vague idea of what the story's about. For example, most news stories about Taylor Swift will use a picture of her as their illustration... so, if somebody wanted to share this story on Twitter, their tweet would just look like a picture of Taylor Swift posted without context.
Granted, there's a very easy workaround: just include the headline text within the tweet itself . But that's a backwards step IMO: it means people have to do manually what was previously done automatically. And there's still a further problem: news links have become difficult to distinguish from uploaded images, so it's hard to tell at a glance what's clickable and what isn't!
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