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Twitter, or X, is a platform that allows you to post several forms of content, and one of them is articles. The platform displays articles nicely with their featured image along with the title and URL. Well, if you thought articles were safe from Elon’s bad decision-making, you’d be mistaken. Twitter will remove the titles from articles on the platform.
When you stumble upon an article, you’ll see the title along with the picture and URL. Surprisingly, before clicking or tapping on it, you’d want to know what it’s about. The title makes it easy to do that, but, as we’ve seen over the past year, anything good on Twitter is liable to be snuffed out by Elon.
According to The Verge, when you see an article after the change, you’ll only see the featured image and the link to the article. That’s it. If you want to get a grasp of the article, you’ll need to click on it or look at the keywords in the URL. If that sounds like an annoyance, that’s because it is.
This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 22, 2023
Once again, a change is coming to Twitter that’s almost universally disliked. Elon ran this idea by advertisers and they didn’t like that idea. However, he’s still going full steam ahead with the idea.
Why is Twitter removing the titles from articles?
Well, this is part of a new change for Elon to “greatly improve the esthetics” of the platform. Along with removing the titles from articles, he’s also planning on reducing the height of posts so that people can fit more of them on their feeds.
Another reason that Elon gave was to reduce the amount of clickbait on the site. Removing the titles from the articles will discourage all types of articles, not just clickbait articles. Also, of all the issues with Twitter, post height and clickbait are not at the top of the list. Just like with removing the block feature, Elon is offering fixes to problems that don’t exist.
As with just about every change that Elon has made, we’re just going to have to sit back and wait to see how this influences the site. We’re not sure when he’s going to issue this change, so you’ll need to stay tuned.