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If they just showed the title and the link - like they used to - they it would drive revenue. But because they show a synopsis of the news, people very often do
by intrasight 3y ago
If they just showed the title and the link - like they used to - they it would drive revenue. But because they show a synopsis of the news, people very often don't click the link.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoThis doesn't happen automatically, it's something websites have to set up: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/cards/overview/abouts-cards https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/c...
- michaelmior 3y agoI'm skeptical that such explicit summaries are the only thing social networks display. Even if that is currently the case, it would be relatively trivial for a company the size of Meta to generate and show their own summary.
- TimPC 3y agoIt might be technically simple but it’s probably legally complicated to write a summarizer that doesn’t violate copyright. Using data they are explicitly given permission to use by the definition of the field it’s in is quite different though.
- cheriot 3y agoThis is the way it's always worked. News orgs are asking social media companies to display the summary and image https://css-tricks.com/essential-meta-tags-social-media/ https://css-tricks.com/essential-meta-tags-social-media/ They're not generating anything
- cpncrunch 3y agoGoogle News does just show the title.
- intrasight 3y agoNo, it also has the first ~140 characters of the article.