Why are news organization reporting this shit? He literally owns twitter and can do whatever he likes. People should stop caring about his personal asset or liability whichever way you want to put it.
He himself is a liability when it comes to the profitability of those very news orgs. They are watching anxiously as the established ways of reaching audiences is being burnt to the ground.
Thats the end of all business news then. All businesses are owned by people, we should stop caring about what the owners do with their assets.
Pretty silly thing to suggest because this isnt musk with a new mansion or other toy that wont affect anyone. The whole point is that there are advertisers who will spend, outsiders who care because of the platform’s influence and tons of users who would want to know of changes.
How moronic can one person be? Every time this guy turns around he’s making a complete dogshit decision. And that’s an objective statement, because I don’t use Twitter. Everything he does seems to serve no purpose but to fuck him (butt fuck him?) In the long run.
You are getting downvoted but you’re right. Saying that someone has no life because they use a website is pretty dumb. The reality is that most people who are still using Twitter simply don’t care about the politics of doing so. Whether or not they have other things to do is largely irrelevant.
The platform will no longer display headlines and other text from news links and show only the main image, limiting a user’s ability to see the contents before clicking.
Couldn’t news sites just make the main image an image of the headline? Honestly though, this will only pressure commercial news to make their images more ridiculous to drive clicks
No, because that would mess up all the other social sharing that is the bread and butter of online news.
I mean, for ask Twitter’s popularity, it was only ever a fraction of the size of Facebook. So it would be ridiculous to cater to Elon and ruin how their news displays on larger platforms.
You know how every movie trailer now starts with a mini trailer for the same movie because of YouTube? Now imagine that but with news articles.
It would be 100x worse than what you just imagined.
I feel it actually creates an incentive for the tweeter to create their own outlandish and missing headline. So it’s even worse. Plus it will be harder to determine if you’ve already read the article as the description is likely to be different most times when you see the article posted by different people.
Even if they do, the actual title is just a click away.
And I agree that it would make things less convenient, but honestly I absolutely hate news articles on social media because the algorithms literally mostly show you what they know you’ll find controversial. I believe that’s had a giant role with the radicalization of people over the last several years. So if it’s inconvenient, good! People shouldn’t really be getting their news from social media anyway.
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