Links to articles uploaded on Elon Musk's X platform once again make news
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| Links to articles uploaded on Elon Musk's X platform once again make news |
Early in October 2023, X, previously Twitter, changed the way news links appeared on the network by ceasing to display headlines in link previews published on the site.
The article title now appears above the feature picture in link previews on X (previously Twitter), but with a reduced text size.
With this upgrade, the article title appears in link previews on the platform as white text inside a black box on the feature picture, but with a decreased font size at the bottom. Having stated that, we observed that the title shown shrinks and is elliptically terminated as the screen size decreases.
This basically implies that links in posts have a longer title on the desktop version, while the headline on the mobile version is chopped off after a few words. Additionally, the website URL is now situated on a different line from the link preview and the buttons that correspond to the Reply, Repost, and Like features.
X's snapshot showing the headlines of articles on the site that include links again
Notably, headlines are still shown in their original manner on X's Android app, which never ceases doing so.
Early in October 2023, X ceased displaying headlines in link previews published on the site; a few months later will be "
This altered the way news links appeared on the site; now, users had to work harder to figure out where to click on links since they are concealed inside the article's primary picture. One must touch the URL that is shown on the picture in order to view the title. As a consequence, the title was included in certain publishers' and users' picture previews of articles on the site.
In the past, Musk said that links "don't get as much attention, because if people click they spend less time" because the company's algorithm seeks to maximize time spent on X. In an attempt to increase platform engagement, he is advising users to upload material directly on the site.
Musk did, however, promise to return the platform's shared connections to prominence in November 2023.
This comes as one of X's investors, Fidelity, is threatening to reduce its value once again. According to recent SEC filings, the massive mutual fund company, which contributed over $300 million to Musk's $44 billion purchase in October 2022, thinks the social media company is now worthy of a takeover. Axios was the first to announce that it was 71.5 percent less than the last time.
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