[HN Gopher] X strips headlines from news story links to improve ...
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X strips headlines from news story links to improve their look
Author : wslh
Score : 25 points
Date : 2023-10-08 21:27 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| miohtama wrote:
| This will lead any content hosting just to burn the headline text
| in the social media image.
| eappleby wrote:
| I'd be surprised if that happens in any meaningful scale.
| Twitter just doesn't justify that type of investment anymore.
| labster wrote:
| 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.
| throw9away6 wrote:
| Too bad it's dead I would have liked to know what's happening in
| Israel right now and official Channels are always suspect.
| [deleted]
| kstrauser wrote:
| This is the dumbest thing I've heard this week, and I've been
| following politics. Is this the new Twitter business model?
|
| 1. Shock
|
| 2. ???
|
| 3. Profit
| [deleted]
| labster wrote:
| Yeah, but without step 3.
| pfisherman wrote:
| Saw something where this was being exploited for purposes of
| misinformation adding fake headlines to news links.
| calderknight wrote:
| 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?
| davidcbc wrote:
| 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
| insin wrote:
| 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
| lyapunova wrote:
| Twitter is just embarrassing now. I haven't used it in over a
| year now. Turns out it's absolutely unnecessary for a normal,
| well-informed lifestyle.
| kstrauser wrote:
| I deleted my account that I opened in 2007. I was a heavy user
| and used it to make friends and get jobs. I'm a little sad to
| see it thrown away like this, but not so much that I wanted to
| stick around to support it.
| [deleted]
| pvg wrote:
| Discussion a couple of days ago
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782945
| standardUser wrote:
| Ever since the absurd logo/name change and blue checkmark idiocy,
| I assume every change is a further step towards purposefully
| sinking the platform.
| [deleted]
| davikr wrote:
| > 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.
| eappleby wrote:
| 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.
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