Elon Musk announced that X formerly known as Twitter, will once again display headlines after eliminating titles from preview cards containing URLs last month.
Musk stated in a post on X that the company will overlay the title in the upper part of the image of a URL card in a future version. He didn’t say how the card may appear or specify when it would be released.
The CEO of Tesla stated in August that X intended to discontinue displaying titles with URLs in previews in favour of “better aesthetics.” Following the announcement, the platform stopped displaying headlines in October.
Users no longer required to read the headline or truly know the title by tapping or clicking on the URL card as a result of this modification. Publishers began writing their own titles on images and posting the link independently, or they would incorporate the headline in the image of the preview card that was generated, as a workaround for this move.
Publications may find this update easier to use and less complicated than custom formats, but this entirely relies on how the new card is laid up.
X has been turbulent in the past weeks. Major companies, such as Apple, Disney, and Comcast, have stopped spending on X following Musk’s endorsement of antisemitic sentiments. This came only a few weeks after Paris Hilton’s 11:11 network said on Tuesday that it was ending its connection with the social network company
