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

racked2y ago· 2 in thread

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.

> This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1693843680904216619

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.

rsynnott2y ago

Presumably they don't have any UX expertise left. Absolutely ridiculous.

jayveeone2y ago

Weird: tried posting this link to Threads and it said "link not allowed" they're blocking links now?

racked2y ago

https://nitter.net/PopBase/status/1709655415850746242

netsharc2y ago

So...

    if (userAgentIsTwitterPreviewBot() && weCareAboutTheShitFlingingIdiotsDyingPlatform()) {
      return previewImageWithBurnedInCaption();
    }

It might not even need code, just some extra HTML: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44525446/image-social-me...

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