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Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

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Post by calderknight »

pfisherman wrote: post #48

Saw something where this was being exploited for purposes of misinformation adding fake headlines to news links.

I don't understand what you are saying. Isn't it common on internet sites to allow the user to create the headline for the link? Is this what you mean? They just made their own title for it? Or is there some way to make it look like the official headline?

Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

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Post by sumeno »

calderknight wrote: post #52
pfisherman wrote: post #48

Saw something where this was being exploited for purposes of misinformation adding fake headlines to news links.

I don't understand what you are saying. Isn't it common on internet sites to allow the user to create the headline for the link? Is this what you mean? They just made their own title for it? Or is there some way to make it look like the official headline?

A tweet with a fake headline now looks exactly the same as a real headline. Previously the headline was pulled directly from the link so it was much harder to make a realistic fake

Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

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Post by eappleby »

davikr wrote: post #50

> improve their look I thought this might have been linked to policies requiring social media platforms to pay for deriving content off newspapers, such as embed text, but alas improve their look it is.

I don't think the driving force of this change is either aesthetics or gov't policy. I think Musk is trying to maximizing Twitter's time on site and if you remove the headlines (and add 5 second delays on link redirects), it decreases the click-through rate on the links. Musk knows that if he outlaws all non-paid links, it would result in an uproar from media companies and users, so he is making the experience as bad as possible so people choose to stop linking out on their own.

Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

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Post by insin »

calderknight wrote: post #52
pfisherman wrote: post #48

Saw something where this was being exploited for purposes of misinformation adding fake headlines to news links.

I don't understand what you are saying. Isn't it common on internet sites to allow the user to create the headline for the link? Is this what you mean? They just made their own title for it? Or is there some way to make it look like the official headline?

The official headline is no longer displayed - search for "Elon Musk wants to get rid of this headline" for examples of people linking to an article which reported on this in August.

Edit: screenshotted for people who don't want to/can't log in: https://imgur.com/gallery/cfFV9wQ

Re: X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

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Post by labster »

eappleby wrote: post #51
miohtama wrote: post #47

This will lead any content hosting just to burn the headline text in the social media image.

I'd be surprised if that happens in any meaningful scale. Twitter just doesn't justify that type of investment anymore.

Yeah, but for some reason journalists think X is still worth it, even though it goes against everything they stand for. X is not Twitter, yet journos can’t kick the habit.
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