X/Twitter strips headlines from news links
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(This post was last modified: 10-07-2023, 09:58 AM by Kyng.)
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 :P . 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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I don’t like this change. Seems like Musk is impulsive and makes changes according to his own tastes without consulting his user base. Bad business move. 

Though links to news sources are still distinguishable from images, as the link is displayed instead of the headline text.
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This is the case with the jcink software, you gotta enter the title yourself as opposed to having it auto-detected. Annoying as heck XD
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everyone still calls it twitter..
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(10-20-2023, 08:37 AM)gibby Wrote: everyone still calls it twitter..

Yeah, I still can’t get used to X, especially calling tweets exes - now that’s just weird.

I’m sure you wouldn’t mind running into so many of your exes everyday, as if life isn’t hard enough 🤪🤣😆
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(10-20-2023, 09:38 AM)~ True Legend ~ Wrote: I’m sure you wouldn’t mind running into so many of your exes everyday, as if life isn’t hard enough 🤪🤣😆

Fortunately, I only have one, and I'm still on good terms with her :lol: .

But, yeah... I guess links are technically distinguishable from images (because the URL appears in the bottom left) - but, it's quite easy to miss, especially at a glance. Means I have to spend time looking to see whether an image is a link or not, when previously it was immediately obvious (doesn't sound like a major effort, but when you have to do it on every image you see, it all adds up!)
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I agree True Legend lol
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Elon Musk can rot.
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I'm not quite sure if Elon's goal with this is purely some bizarre aesthetic taste of his or if he hopes it makes it harder for people to tell the difference between legitimate news sources and total bs ones.
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