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…
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.
They enshittified themselve to death
They’ve gone and Dugg themselves a whole that will never come out of while Musk is there.
B-but Elon told me advertisers were returning!
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.
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
Maybe X.org
It’s called ‘Twitter’.
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.
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
Guys he doesn’t care, I have a feeling he’s more annoyed or even amused that people are still using Twitter more than anything. He’s doing the whole “I want to push this as far as possible xd” thing. And honestly it is kind of amazing seeing just how much people put up with to use that shit platform
Xitter can you stop being a bitch for like, a minute?
Enshittification as planned
For people still using Twitter, if you view it in a browser like Brave it will hide all the ads for you. Even better, you can save the webpage view as a Web App in your phone and access it that way and you barely even notice it’s the web version you’re using and not the app. I’ve not seen an ad on Twitter in months since doing that.
Considering they dismantled every control they had to prevent disinformation, and it was already a cesspool to begin with… Why are people still using Twitter?
Sadly these still a lot of folks on there that haven’t moved elsewhere. If you curate your follower lists and don’t venture into the replies of big/ trending accounts then it’s still manageable. Mostly I just use to to read people I follow rather than post anything new myself these days.
Also, I’ve feeds of decent journalists that I’ve built up over many years that don’t post elsewhere. There’s still that immediacy that you just don’t get elsewhere.
Before I dropped twatter like a bad habit I had it running nicely through Adguard and TwiFucker on Android which blocked ads as well as sponsored twats. Highly recommend if anyone is stuck using that terrible platform for some reason.
What’s up with right wingers and “esthetics”?
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
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.
