Posts on X might look quite different, especially if you mainly follow news and media publications. The website formerly known as Twitter has started removing headlines and snippets from posted links, implementing a change Fortune reported in August. Back then, website owner Elon Musk said that the idea came from him directly and that it will “greatly improve the [platform’s] esthetics.” We tested it out by posting one of our stories, and only the article’s image with an overlay of its URL show up when it’s viewed on iOS. On the web, we still see the article snippet and a truncated version of its headline.
Advertisers reportedly didn’t like the new format when they were shown a preview of it, but the change is clearly still pushing through. X’s main reason for the format switch is apparently to make posts look more compact by fitting more of them in the portion of the timeline that appears on screen. In addition, Musk reportedly thinks that it could help lessen instances of…
2023-10-04 20:14:46
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