Users will now write tweets differently to incorporate headline + source info Ī former NBA player dies young, and AI writes this headline: “The hardest-hit group? Local shows covering a single team.” /D4fINdEePD You can also just use a social-specific visual, similar to what many reporters already use if posting stories on Instagram, or an article screenshot, which is what many reporters already share on X anyway: ICYMI, I wrote about how (possible!) new competition in the search market might affect the news industry. This morning, for instance, our own Josh Benton built a system for Nieman Lab that allows us to convert a headline, deck, and visual to a single image and post that in a tweet. This change might not be that hard for news outlets to work around. In reality i’m now much more likely to click the link since i have to go there to see what i once could get from the preview In elon’s eternal wisdom, he’s decided that removing everything but the image from link previews will keep people from clicking and thus leaving twitter □Here’s a □example of the kind of fake news trafficking that will explode because of disastrous decision to censor real news titles - whether for satire or malicious intent, mis- and disinformation apocalypse on Twitter X.0□□ Īnyway, another view out there - maybe eliminating headlines will, ironically, make people more likely to click, because they want to know what the story is about and have nothing to work off except a mystery image: My prediction is that Twitter is going to become a place for just jokes and cultural arguments and chasing clout, and posting memes, and shitposting, instead of a destination for news discovery and analysis.ĭon’t think Twitter fully thought through the consequences of this change /JQZwEYkeuZĬould a change that allows you to share a link with a headline you make up based on a photo and zero context help spread…….misinformation? Surely not, since here on the internet in 2023 we all live a totally organic and truth– fueled lifestyle, especially on TwitterX… Obviously not happy with the change to how links are displayed. (see for yourself: search this link on twitter ) When you write stories like this, of course you want it to have an impact-but this was certainly an unexpected outcome ” Aside from headlines being the tools that reporters and editors craft explicitly as hooks to try to get a reader to click, with these textless images, news stories basically look like…memes? As reporters and non-reporters alike have demonstrated: According to legacy news lover Musk, removing headlines “ greatly improves the esthetics. This change has been in the works since at least August, so it wasn’t a complete surprise. That’s because X began removing news links and headlines from posts. You probably don’t see a headline on this link right now. (For some reason, embedded tweets still show headlines, at least for now.) Here’s what that same tweet would have looked like before the change. Here’s what that looks like for news stories: Swapping verification for pay-to-play system Twitter Blue 1 labeling NPR “state-affiliated media” and throttling the ( already-limited) flow of traffic to news websites from links posted on the platform, to name a few standout moments.īut if you had to come up with a single move designed to deal a blow to whatever traffic is left and make sharing news more of a hassle, you couldn’t do much better than eliminating headlines from posts, which Musk did on Wednesday. The saga of how Elon Musk has undermined news on X ( RIP Twitter) in the year since his chaotic evil takeover of the company is a long one.
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