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"<Company name> built a profile on every American adult" is less clickbaity than "This company has built a profile on every American adult." I wish people trie
by kelukelugames 10y ago
"<Company name> built a profile on every American adult" is less clickbaity than "This company has built a profile on every American adult."
I wish people tried harder to reduce click bait titles.
- hugodahl 10y agoBut Bloomberg needs is to click and drag the article so they can link up or information together. OTOH, I'm sure it will be covered by Buzzfeed. I'll even provide a nice click bait title for them to A/B test: "This company you've never heard of knows every personal detail about you."
- whoopdedo 10y agoDo they even still teach the five Ws in journalism school these days? I'd like a browser extension that uses NLP to identify and hide clickbait headlines.
- kevin_thibedeau 10y agoInverted pyramids are for old people.
- cema 10y agoI wish people tried harder to reduce click bait titles. So do I, but do they have incentives to do so? Can we maybe think of ways to incentivize them?
- kelukelugames 10y agoThe mods are our only hope.