Next can we strip Elon off news headlines? Let him fall into irrelevance already.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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I have just one wish. Please let Elon Musk buy Fox News and run it the way he runs Twitter.
Amen.
If you are still on Twitter, wait sorry, X, then you literally have nothing better to do with your life.
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.
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
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.
they can pretty easily serve a slightly different image for twitter only though
That would take time and time is money. They don't want to spend the money or the time.
It wouldn’t be difficult to set up a site to automatically generate an image of the headline text.
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.
I hate this so much, a preview for a preview.
changes to a website don't equal news headlines
They do unfortunately equal clicks which is all they care about.
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.
#BoycottMusk
This tosspiece becomes a bigger arsehole with each passing day..