The platform will no longer display headlines and other text from news links and show only the main image, limiting a user’s ability to see the contents before clicking.
Couldn’t news sites just make the main image an image of the headline? Honestly though, this will only pressure commercial news to make their images more ridiculous to drive clicks
No, because that would mess up all the other social sharing that is the bread and butter of online news.
I mean, for ask Twitter’s popularity, it was only ever a fraction of the size of Facebook. So it would be ridiculous to cater to Elon and ruin how their news displays on larger platforms.
You know how every movie trailer now starts with a mini trailer for the same movie because of YouTube? Now imagine that but with news articles.
It would be 100x worse than what you just imagined.
Couldn’t news sites just make the main image an image of the headline? Honestly though, this will only pressure commercial news to make their images more ridiculous to drive clicks
No, because that would mess up all the other social sharing that is the bread and butter of online news.
I mean, for ask Twitter’s popularity, it was only ever a fraction of the size of Facebook. So it would be ridiculous to cater to Elon and ruin how their news displays on larger platforms.
they can pretty easily serve a slightly different image for twitter only though
That would take time and time is money. They don’t want to spend the money or the time.
It wouldn’t be difficult to set up a site to automatically generate an image of the headline text.
You know how every movie trailer now starts with a mini trailer for the same movie because of YouTube? Now imagine that but with news articles.
It would be 100x worse than what you just imagined.
I hate this so much, a preview for a preview.