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This article is a lot of words about the fact that twitter, or should I say X, is promoting tweets, er posts, that keep one on X (posts without a link in them, the example given in the article is posts with pictures) instead posts that send one away from X (posts that consist of a link promoting something on an external website, which used to have the ability to go viral greatly helping the owner/author of what's on the external website).



The article is roughly 1,500 words.. If that is a lot to you, I guess it just means you probably like twitter these days!


I dunno, I also found it sort of rambling and not getting to the point of its thesis.


The article also agrees that 1,500 words is a lot, seeing as they are the leeches who say things like optimize for the picture rather than the content and the attention economy.

Really, this is a bunch of whinging from people who used to get free promotion from others work, now they can't abuse that trust anymore.


As a user, I'd much prefer a concise tweet instead of a huge article with the same exact point. So, I guess Musk's Twitter actually improves my experience.


What if it’s impossible to present that point in a post on X?

E.g. because it’s too complex, or because the author doesn’t post on X, or for some other reason.


Some people just want to live in a world of sound-bites and hot-takes.

They're also the sorts of people who believe most books should be replaced by a paragraph-long summary.


Unfortunately now you can pay to have your tweets be huge-article sized.




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