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
apple app store
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Whether X would run afoul of that requirement is unclear – by retaining a mute option, X may be allowed to remain in mobile app stores.
None of that matters if X collapses entirely
All of Musk's decrees rely on one key element: X has to survive, and not even Elon is sure it can.
"The sad truth is that there are no great 'social networks' right now," Musk xeeted on Saturday. "We may fail, as so many have predicted, but we will try our best to make there be at least one," the X owner added
Musk's post came not long after news broke that tweets published prior to December 2014 containing images and links shortened by Twitter weren't displaying properly, spurring some to speculate that Twitter had removed the media entirely.
https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/1692922211416334597
It took X until Monday to acknowledge the issue, which it said was caused by "a bug that prevented us from displaying images from before 2014
Whether the weekend's image trouble was due to X's instability since Musk's takeover, or related to Musk's other decrees to change how X displays and handles links, is unclear, as usual
the ships is is sinking
@ecksmc: I believe that at this point Jack and his cohorts full well understand that Twitter was a once-in-a-lifetime boon, like Facebook. They lucked out and were able to wrangle Musk into buying the platform because of his own big mouth, and they became obscenely wealthy(-ier). Now he and they can play, and it's Musk's problem now.
This whole fiasco reeks of attempting to copy Js idea of the right to be forgotten here.
Only very poorly executed.
All those followers and this is best Elon comes up with....
google play
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9876937