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- enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world
X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue::Elon Musk’s X revamped its look to eliminate headlines on article links Wednesday, the same day that Reuters reported the platform has seen massive monthly…
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How about we respond by dropping X from headlines and articles?
I think “dropping X” might have been a factor in this decision.
Hey, don’t do my homegirl Molly dirty like that—she just wants the world to feel good.
Please help me find Molly Hi, I’m looking for Molly I’ve been searching everywhere And I can’t seem to find Molly
Do you know where I can find Molly? She makes my life happier, more exciting She makes me want to dance Dance, dance
Oh, don’t do that, I’ve still got half a bag of popcorn left.
Jesus, how big was that bag to start with?!
Oh, just normal serving size…
I’m sure there are movie communities in the fediverse who can recommend great movies to go with the popcorn!
It’s just wrong kind of X. We need to talk about X.org.
Weyland disagrees
Wayland is developed by X.org
Did you mean “X”, formerly Twitter?
I believe they meant “Xitter”.
I’ve wondered, would that be pronounced similar to “Shitter” or “Exiter”?
“Shitter”.
Tweets are now “xits”. As a verb: “xit”, past-tense: “xat”.
“Zitter” like a big ol zit
Isn’t that the platform that is just Cartman and Alec Baldwin?
Maybe X.org
What’s support to go in place of X?
It’s called ‘Twitter’.
Xitter is also acceptable in my book.
Just needs to be popped.
As long as we start referring to its owner as " the X billionaire Elon Musk".
It’s “the service formally known as twitter” to be fair. They changed the name to something
Ƭ̵̬̊witter
Idk to call that shit show Twitter is kind of an insult to Twitter at this point
Yeah I know but at this point also; if it might piss off Musky then I’ll deadname it.
IWNBAX
I have no idea what this means.
Internal Walrus Nutella Banana Anthill Xylophone?!?!?
it will never be an X
Perhaps: Impressively Wrong Newspaper Benefits Absolute Xenophobia?!?
Downvote Musk spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don’t be a useful idiot.
But it makes me so happy…
Not seeing it at makes me so much more happy.
The change had been expected, with Musk tweeting in August: “This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics.”
Yeah… we figured it’s his doing, since it’s a terrible decision.
Probably hoping that if they remove titles they can remove context from the link, trying to goad people into click-throughs. Pretty poor experience for the users I’d argue
What even is the point of this change?! What could it possibly improve?
Probably so people click the link more often to find out what it’s about - which Musk then can take to publishers and say “look how much traffic we generated for you”
Yeah, I see it. Horrible for the users though…
Elon Musk’s mood for a few minutes.
Might just be a way to bypass some countries requiring that social media sites pay news companies when they scrape their articles and show a preview on the page? Something like that’s been passed in Canada recently and companies like Facebook and Google basically just stopped showing summaries of news on their sites to Canadians as a result.
As opposed to journalists, who drop articles from headlines.
Enshittification as planned
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Xitter can you stop being a bitch for like, a minute?
Man, Elon just never stops, does he? He has made one good addition to what was a perfectly good Twitter (Community Notes), and at least what, 30 bad decisions? Has there ever been a CEO as stupid as Elon has been to Twitter over this year? I mean damn, even being outed as a child molester and forced to resign probably wouldn’t have been as bad.
Community Notes predate Musk.
Did not realize, damn… so that’s zero good decisions I guess. Elon has gotta be the worst owner of any tech company… probably ever, honestly.
What’s up with right wingers and “esthetics”?
It’s a bullshit claim to tradition
I feel like this is a broken clock thing where the reality is that headlines often detract from articles but its also a bad solution. User summaries makes more sense but thats harder to figure out
Ad revenue in August was down 60% year over year, the report said.
Good
Holy shit, that’s brutal. That company is dead
I’ve seen estimates that put the loss of value of the company itself since Elon took over at something like 90%. If that’s anywhere even close to accurate… impressive. Most impressive.
Since Twitter is now private, we’ll never know the real numbers, but the paper value of the Twitter brand itself being cast aside is a huge non-monetary loss.
Right?? Like, it was one of the most known brands in the world. You don’t throw that away if making money is your goal.
Does everyone understand that we need to fight the class war?
The 1% just bought twitter so they could destroy it, removing the leading tool people used to communicate.
… As we enter what has potential to be the worst election season yet.
Elon never intended to buy Twitter, he always intended to back out of the deal from the beginning, either as a headline-grabbing move or as some form of stock manipulation. His miscalculation is that he didn’t realize that the existing Twitter management was eager to sell due to the site treading water in terms of profitability, and were willing to take him to court to make the deal go through.
The boat-anchor around his ankle is that he had to borrow a lot of money to honor the purchase. Advertising revenue would’ve always been decimated by his enabling the right, but the enormous debt hanging over his head is why the site is visibly cracking at the seams so soon after his purchase. Of course, he did favors for his political allies, but that was a move made out of opportunism, not conspiracy.
If I’m making him sound like he’s playing 5D chess, he’s not. He made a dumb decision that blew up in his face. He’s screwed. He knows he’s totally screwed. So he’s doing what any CEO would be doing in his position - cutting costs, lying about why the site is having issues, and coming up with hare-brained ideas to try and generate revenue. It’s 100% performative CYA, because when the site is finally repossessed by his creditors, at least he can claim he tried something.
