X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
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X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
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Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
#2"Who wouldn't want Elon Musk by their side, leading product?" - Linda
Thankfully no one will possibly consider just putting the titles inside the images in 48pt font with eye-bursting colors and no way to respond to user/device-specific configuration, right?
Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
#3I think the “the masses” implies there are actually a lot of people still reading Twitter… perhaps it's just my bubble, but I feel not many actual humans are impacted by this change.
Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
#4"Who wouldn't want Elon Musk by their side, leading product?" - Linda Thankfully no one will possibly consider just putting the titles inside the images in 48pt font with eye-bursting colors and no way to respond to user/device-specific configuration, right?
Add to the image someone making exaggerated faces, maybe?
Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
#5"Who wouldn't want Elon Musk by their side, leading product?" - Linda Thankfully no one will possibly consider just putting the titles inside the images in 48pt font with eye-bursting colors and no way to respond to user/device-specific configuration, right?
Add to the image someone making exaggerated faces, maybe?
No chance. They won't do this out of sheer respect for Elon's aesthetic preferences.
Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
#6Are there any platforms that show only the twitter:image and other twitter:* meta tags in HTML (ie: don't fall back on OpenGraph's og:*) ?
Looks like the perfect time to shave a few bytes off our pages and go OG-only. Ironically, X is perfectly fine with just og:images.
Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
#7I think the “the masses” implies there are actually a lot of people still reading Twitter… perhaps it's just my bubble, but I feel not many actual humans are impacted by this change.
Use of that phrase tends to either signal that the author thinks that their little bubble is larger than it really is or that they have some sort of paternalistic need to inform this not-me-but-most-everyone-else group of people (or be concerned on their behalf). Or both.
Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
#8This affects the Twitter social media card of type summary_large_image - a short-term fix if this affects your site is to switch that for the summary card, which still shows a visible link title with a smaller, square cropped image. https://twitter.com/matteason/status/1709986442124951931
I have a pattern for producing screenshots of my pages for use in social media cards which is suddenly a lot more relevant: https://til.simonwillison.net/shot-scraper/social-media-card...
Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
#9Thank you for posting. It's great to see the flashes of sarcastic humor from El Reg of old. (Did they hire back somebody?)
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