Musk's latest X-periments: No more headlines, old posts vanish, block gets banned
If advertisers weren't happy before, this is sure to win them over
Musk confirmed early this morning that the headline-stripping decision came from him directly
Musk also said yesterday that X would do away with Tweepcred,
an internal analysis tool that uses an implementation of Google's PageRank algorithm to determine a user's influence (on a scale of 1-100) on Twitter/X. News of Tweepcred's existence was revealed when Musk opened up Twitter's algorithm to external scrutiny.
Musk's statement that Tweepcred "will be deleted. Not simply renamed. Deleted" came in response to Twitter users complaining that Tweepcred meant their accounts would be penalized for interacting with low-reputation accounts.
Musk's block-killing statement echoed his earlier calls for the elimination of the block list on Twitter in favor of a stronger form of mute - Both Google Play and Apple's App Store require social media apps to give users the ability to block offensive content and users
