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Twitter/X has removed article headlines on links shared to the platform

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Presumably they don't have any UX expertise left. Absolutely ridiculous.

Weird: tried posting this link to Threads and it said "link not allowed" they're blocking links now?

What could be the reason for this? Is it a bug? I'm all for less clickbaity titles, but having no title is vague too.

Not a bug. Ostensibly, Musk wants to fit more tweets on a page, but that could be accomplished by putting the title on the image. Really, he just wants people to stay on Twitter and ignore external links.

> This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1693843680904216619

https://nitter.net/PopBase/status/1709655415850746242

So...

    if (userAgentIsTwitterPreviewBot() && weCareAboutTheShitFlingingIdiotsDyingPlatform()) {
      return previewImageWithBurnedInCaption();
    }

It might not even need code, just some extra HTML: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44525446/image-social-me...

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