Elon Musk’s X Plans to Remove Headlines from Links to News Articles – News18

Elon Musk is pushing to vary how news hyperlinks seem on his social media platform X, previously referred to as Twitter, in a transfer that might doubtlessly undermine the flexibility of news publishers to attract an viewers.

X is planning to take away the headline and textual content whereas retaining simply the lead picture from hyperlinks to news articles shared on the platform, Musk stated in a put up late on Monday.

The transfer is probably going an try by Musk to get customers to spend extra time on X and push them to go for the subscription service for extra particulars.

It isn’t instantly clear how the transfer will affect advertisers on the platform that Musk claimed in July had 540 million month-to-month customers.

Currently, news hyperlinks come up on the timeline of customers as “playing cards” together with a picture, supply handle and an abridged headline. Such packaging helps draw clicks and helps publishers acquire readers.

But with the shortened links, users might end up writing some text along with their posts and eventually, they could consider X’s premium service that allows a single post of up to 25,000 characters.

With the changes, Musk is pitching X as a more relevant platform for content creators. Premium subscribers can now post longer videos, their posts are shown higher up and they also receive a cut of ad sales.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – Reuters)