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I don’t understand this move at all. “There is less time spent if people click away”

So now people are forced to click every link if they want to see what it’s about? Can’t stay on Twitter and get the headline and lead-in?

I would think these link previews let people stay on twitter but what do I know. I’ve stopped using it a long time ago. The mastodon app I use has link previews so this won’t affect me much.

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Musk's argument is that not showing any of the content other than the image will force people to instead put the article text content in the Twitter post itself, next to the image. By showing almost no context for a link, it will force posters to manually include more context, and thus people will stay on Twitter longer than when they were generating a bit of context for the embeds (e.g. article title).

> By showing almost no context for a link, it will force posters to manually include more context, and thus people

... will feel compelled to pay for Twitter, since to post significant text in a tweet you need to pay.

That's the real goal, to push people to paud accounts, not to make Twitter stickier.

Have they de-discovered a/b testing? Presumably it would have told them whether users stay or go because they have to click the link to find out what it is.

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