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Twitter/X has removed article headlines on links shared to the platform

• racked 3y ago
  What could be the reason for this? Is it a bug? I'm all for less clickbaity titles, but having no title is vague too.
  • publius_0xf3 3y ago
    Not a bug. Ostensibly, Musk wants to fit more tweets on a page, but that could be accomplished by putting the title on the image. Really, he just wants people to stay on Twitter and ignore external links.
  • MallocVoidstar 3y ago
    > This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1693843680904216619 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1693843680904216619
• racked 3y ago
  https://nitter.net/PopBase/status/1709655415850746242 https://nitter.net/PopBase/status/1709655415850746242
• netsharc 3y ago
  So... if (userAgentIsTwitterPreviewBot() && weCareAboutTheShitFlingingIdiotsDyingPlatform()) { return previewImageWithBurnedInCaption(); } It might not even need code, just some extra HTML: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44525446/image-social-meta-tags-property-ogimage-name-twitterimage-itemprop-imag https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44525446/image-social-me...
• rsynnott 3y ago
  Presumably they don't have any UX expertise left. Absolutely ridiculous.
• jayveeone 3y ago
  Weird: tried posting this link to Threads and it said "link not allowed" they're blocking links now?