Twitter to hide news headlines from link previews
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Twitter (now X) has become a great platform for following news, and many media groups (including ours) share links to...
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This is so stupid. He wants them to publish their articles on twitter? What.
Facebook did the same thing years ago, it’s part of the enshittification cycle. When you post a link to another site, you’re directing traffic away from twitter and it’s advertisers, so Elon would much prefer that you be forced to post the entire article so that no one ever has to leave twitter and give their ad revenue to anyone else.
Obviously no one would agree to this if it was happening from the start, but once your platform has a stranglehold on everyone, you can start tightening the noose like this. Everyone hates it, but people feel like they have nowhere else to go, so they put up with it. Or at least that’s what twitter’s betting on
This reminds me of the whole Google AMP tbh.
I think some news companies are trying to sue him for linking to articles without paying them, which is a strange turn of events given it wasn't too long ago that businesses would paid you to link to their site (that's what Elon says anyway; I'm not in web commerce so I don't know personally how it works.) So, I guess he wants to have people write the news on his site instead?
I think news companies are going bust?