from the can’t- believe-he-really-did-it dept
In August we discussed a reported strategy of Elon Musk to eliminate headings from the TwitterCards (are they now X-cards? who the hell understands?), generally making the website totally ineffective for news usage. At the time Musk declared it was in some way more visually pleasing. Since that’s what everybody searches for in their news links: are they visually pleasing?
Anyhow, it’s entered into impact every news link on Twitter appears like it’s simply a picture, and years and years of integrated in routines of how to (1) tweet about the news and (2) check out news on exTwitter … are flushed away. Generally, links to newspaper article now appear simply as the image connected with the newspaper article and the only method to inform that it’s in fact a link is to take place to see the small white text in the lower lefthand corner, which is unbelievably simple to miss out on.
Which’s made a mess for news orgs that were utilized to utilizing the tweet text to talk about the heading. The heading that is now missing out on.
Or you get circumstances like this, where individuals are discussing the heading … and we have no concept what the heading even is.
Some individuals have actually been appropriately grumbling about this, though Elon appears quite upset that generally everybody states this draws. Here he is arguing incoherently with Box creator Aaron Levie:
This is not about “thinking the media,” this has to do with exTwitter generally making it difficult to inform that something is a link. For no clear factor.
Naturally, others rapidly recognized that this indicated you might connect to whatever you desire and … well … include your own heading. And, a lot of enjoyable was had at Elon’s cost.
I think possibly it is visually pleasing after all …
Naturally, Mr. “Free Speech Absolutist” who has baselessly called individuals who irritate him pedophiles on numerous events, could not permit anybody to make a joke over his brand-new “visually pleasing” news link display screens by describing him as a pedophile, so when a rubbish peddler– whose sole specialty is baselessly indicating lots of individuals are pedophiles– highlighted the Juniper tweet above, Elon reacted … and suspended the account.
I think funny is no longer legal on the brand-new, more visually pleasing exTwitter?
Naturally, in real Streisand Impact style, now more individuals are finding out about all of this and press reporters are asking concerns.
So, simply to summarize, we have an extremely ridiculous modification that Elon made that makes news links generally difficult to parse on exTwitter, which opened an enjoyable type of trolling, which many individuals utilized to tease Elon Musk himself. Among those giant tweets jokingly called Elon Musk a pedophile, which is among Elon’s own preferred go to relocations when challenged. Another account, whose whole specialty is baselessly recommending random individuals are pedophiles, highlighted this to Musk, and Musk (who pretends to be a “complimentary speech absolutist” to the outright most gullible individuals worldwide who think him), then suspended that represent breaking “X’s” guidelines (by which Musk indicates “upset Elon Musk personally.”) That user’s backup account was likewise suspended, however this post is long enough that we’re simply going to leave it there.
Anyhoo, please do not publish this post to exTwitter, since everybody will simply believe it’s an image anyhow and not click it.
Upgraded: Generally simply as this post went live, Elon unsuspended the Juniper account, so actually, we’re back to material small amounts by impulses.
Upgraded once again: And … an hour later on, the account was suspended once again. Impulses, impulses, impulses.
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