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Elon Musk to strip headlines off news links on Twitter in latest overhaul

www.theguardian.com Elon Musk to strip headlines off news links on Twitter in latest overhaul

Move by the billionaire owner of the social media site may be an attempt to drive up subscription of the app’s premium service

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Next can we strip Elon off news headlines? Let him fall into irrelevance already.

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God? Are you there God? It's me, flossdaily.

I have just one wish. Please let Elon Musk buy Fox News and run it the way he runs Twitter.

Amen.

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If you are still on Twitter, wait sorry, X, then you literally have nothing better to do with your life.

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- Says the guy on Lemmy
  
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  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.
  
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Can we, as a society, just move on from that shitty website?

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Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

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- Permanently Deleted
  
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  How about you delete your account if you don't like it. Maybe Daddy Musk will like one of your tweets if you simp harder for him.
  
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  Go back to reddit.
  
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  Fuck off Elon
  
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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

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- 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.
  
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  they can pretty easily serve a slightly different image for twitter only though
  
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- 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.
  
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  I hate this so much, a preview for a preview.
  
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changes to a website don't equal news headlines

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- They do unfortunately equal clicks which is all they care about.
  
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Way to get people to interact with your platform: show them less pertinent information.

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#BoycottMusk

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- Didn’t he step down after agreeing to do what ever the poll results were and he lost and was supposed to step down but he didn’t really at all he just pretended to but kept running twitter like nothing happened?
  
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  Yep. Along with all of his other deranged qualities, he's also a liar.
  
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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.

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This tosspiece becomes a bigger arsehole with each passing day..

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Wait. So you mean people will actually have to read articles now? This is actually kind of genius.

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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.

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- 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.
  
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- Because it’s…. Wait for it…. News. 🤯
  
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- 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.
  
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  I understand where you coming from but does elon musk care ? He knows its his way or the highway.
  
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Well shoot, I actually like that. Never thought I’d see the day.

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- Why?
  
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  Lowers the incentive for using outlandish, misleading headlines.
  
  Forces people to click the link and go to the news outlets’ websites thereby giving local news better ad revenue.
  
  Increases chances of people actually reading the article instead of making assumptions based on misleading titles.
  
  Maybe I’m missing something but this seems like a good thing to me.
  
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