Elon Musk hints that X deprioritizes links to keep users on platform formerly known as Twitter
X owner Elon Musk has implied that the platform throttles the reach of posts, including links to external sites, to keep users from leaving.
Replying to a post on X by popular user Paul Graham on Sunday, Mr. Musk said if users want their links seen by other users, they should write long descriptions of what is in the link and then post the link in the replies.
“Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply,” Mr. Musk wrote on X. “This just stops lazy linking.”
Mr. Graham was criticizing a perceived deprioritization of links on X. He said that he visits X to “find out what’s going on, and you can’t do that without links.” Mr. Graham found Mr. Musk’s advice confusing.
“If I write a new essay and tweet a link to it, that’s ‘lazy linking,’” Mr. Graham wrote in a reply to Mr. Musk. “But if I tweet that I’ve written a new essay and then put the link in a reply, that’s somehow better?”
Sounds like Elon should join #inleo....
So it's better to describe what you read in the article, give opinions and then link it, rather than Just putting a title and a link
This is nothing more than data and control. The idea of driving traffic from other social media via links is going away. The Internet is changing.
Just following every other big tech platform then.