Twitter, or ‘X,’ would remove both the headline and text on article links as Musk tries to push 'journalists' to report exclusively on his app.
now called “X”—would remove headlines and description text from links posted to the app. Instead, each link would simply display the main image from the site without any other context on the URL. Musk then confirmed his plans to kill headlines in an early Tuesday morning tweet, claiming the move would “greatly improve the esthetics.”According to Fortune’s unnamed sources, the company wants to make tweets smaller so it can stick more content on a single feed page.
short description of the content. Cards don’t count as characters in the tweet format, and the cards have long been used by creators to provide context on the link without eating up that 280-characterThe move would force users to manually input the headline and description text in each tweet, a task that can be handled with a bot for websites that regularly tweet out every new article. For other users, it would require them to spend even more precious time,describing every single link they post.
Though Musk is planting his foot on the “esthetics” excuse, this move would fit into the larger scheme Musk has for Twitter. The billionaire site owner wants Twitter to become the “everything app” and part of that plan is to somehow incentivize reporters to write news directly onto Twitter itself. Of course, this would incentivize those supposed reporters to buy $8 subscriptions in order to access longer tweets and other functions like Tweetdeck.
Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Elon Musk's Twitter/X Seeks Job Applicants to Fill What Critics Call 'Censorship Positions'Elon Musk's X platform, previously known as Twitter, is now seeking job applicants to stop disinformation and promote 'credible' stories about the election, despite the Tesla CEO saying he had planned to make the social media platform more friendly to free speech.
Read more »
Elon Musk Announces Removal of Block Feature from Twitter/X, Potentially Breaking App Store RulesElon Musk, owner of the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), has announced plans to remove the blocking feature from the platform, a move that the platform's own 'community notes' fact check feature claims may violate the policies of the Apple and Google app stores.
Read more »
Twitter Glitch Deletes Millions of Photos From Elon Musk's XMore chaos at the company formerly known as Twitter.
Read more »
'Free Speech Absolutist' Twitter/X Boss Elon Musk to James Woods: Delete Your AccountFollowing Elon Musk's announcement that the 'block' feature would be removed from X (formerly Twitter), actor James Woods pointed out why he believed this was a bad idea. Musk, the self-proclaimed 'free speech absolutist' responded, 'then delete your account.' Musk then blocked Woods, popular conservative pundit and author Catturd, and other prominent users who dared to make their opinion on his intensely unpopular idea known.
Read more »
Elon Musk Admits Twitter May Be Failing Under His LeadershipTwitter owner Elon Musk has admitted what we all suspect: that under his leadership, the site may not thrive after all.
Read more »