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        You are getting downvoted but you’re right. Saying that someone has no life because they use a website is pretty dumb. The reality is that most people who are still using Twitter simply don’t care about the politics of doing so. Whether or not they have other things to do is largely irrelevant.

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    Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

    Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

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    Way to get people to interact with your platform: show them less pertinent information.

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    How moronic can one person be? Every time this guy turns around he’s making a complete dogshit decision. And that’s an objective statement, because I don’t use Twitter. Everything he does seems to serve no purpose but to fuck him (butt fuck him?) In the long run.

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    Well shoot, I actually like that. Never thought I’d see the day.

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        Lowers the incentive for using outlandish, misleading headlines.

        Forces people to click the link and go to the news outlets’ websites thereby giving local news better ad revenue.

        Increases chances of people actually reading the article instead of making assumptions based on misleading titles.

        Maybe I’m missing something but this seems like a good thing to me.

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          I feel it actually creates an incentive for the tweeter to create their own outlandish and missing headline. So it’s even worse. Plus it will be harder to determine if you’ve already read the article as the description is likely to be different most times when you see the article posted by different people.

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            Even if they do, the actual title is just a click away.

            And I agree that it would make things less convenient, but honestly I absolutely hate news articles on social media because the algorithms literally mostly show you what they know you’ll find controversial. I believe that’s had a giant role with the radicalization of people over the last several years. So if it’s inconvenient, good! People shouldn’t really be getting their news from social media anyway.

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    Why are news organization reporting this shit? He literally owns twitter and can do whatever he likes. People should stop caring about his personal asset or liability whichever way you want to put it.

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      Thats the end of all business news then. All businesses are owned by people, we should stop caring about what the owners do with their assets.

      Pretty silly thing to suggest because this isnt musk with a new mansion or other toy that wont affect anyone. The whole point is that there are advertisers who will spend, outsiders who care because of the platform’s influence and tons of users who would want to know of changes.

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        I understand where you coming from but does elon musk care ? He knows its his way or the highway.

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          That isnt true, there have been issues where things have changed after controversy and press. Recently, twitter imposed a 5s delay on links to some websites like NYT, Threads and a few others (Source) and some time ago blocked mentioning accounts on other social media profiles (source).

          Even if Musk generally didnt care, the intention in posting might be to keep up with changes for the reasons I mentioned in my previous comment, not to get him to change.