Eon Musk's X wants to stop showing headlines on news articles, says ‘will greatly improve…’
Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is planning to start removing headlines from news articles. Under the new changes, articles will appear on users' timelines with just a headline and URL, while individuals will have to add their own description above the post. According to a report by Fortune, X wants users to write a more ‘engaging post’ by removing the headline and other context from the post.
The report also noted that the new change is being directly pushed for by X owner Elon Musk. Replying to a post by X News Daily, Musk confirmed the recent report. He wrote, “This is coming from me directly.
Will greatly improve the esthetics." Interestingly, Musk also made an appeal to journalists to write on X in order to earn more income. He posted, “If you’re a journalist who wants more freedom to write and a higher income, then publish directly on this platform!" The Fortune report, citing sources, notes that Musk believes that articles take up too much space on a user's timeline, and with the new change, X will be able to reduce the height of tweets, allowing more posts to fit on the same timeline while helping to curb clickbait. Until now, a new article has appeared as a 'card' on a user's timeline, consisting of an image, a short headline and a description.
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