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Musk's argument is that not showing any of the content other than the image will force people to instead put the article text content in the Twitter post itself
by anonymousab 3y ago
Musk's argument is that not showing any of the content other than the image will force people to instead put the article text content in the Twitter post itself, next to the image. By showing almost no context for a link, it will force posters to manually include more context, and thus people will stay on Twitter longer than when they were generating a bit of context for the embeds (e.g. article title).
- dragonwriter 3y ago> By showing almost no context for a link, it will force posters to manually include more context, and thus people ... will feel compelled to pay for Twitter, since to post significant text in a tweet you need to pay. That's the real goal, to push people to paud accounts, not to make Twitter stickier.