Twitter is now throttling Tweets that contain external links.
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I thought that was always the case…
I recall tweets with links getting less reach overall than those without. That’s why people always saved links for last tweet in a thread or at least not the first one. That seemed to get penalized if first tweet had a link.
Maybe? I never noticed anything like that when I was a big Twitter user. News with links always seemed to spread.
They never stopped doing this as much as they merely stopped mentioning it up until now.
Elon Muskrat is like every other Big Tech bro, and anyone serious knew from the jump that his free speech "commitments" were a larp either immediately or within a few days; new boss, same as the old boss, who were the same as the boss before them.
Agree.
Always have been. Especially substack, it’s insane
Not the X o’clock news 🤣
Nothing new in the front, of the centralizations
His goal is not for you to have access to information and free speech.
His goal is for you to be addicted to his platform.
This is literally the norm on every centralized social. Instagram doesn’t even let you put links in your posts, TikTok doesn’t allow links, Facebook doesn’t let you open it in an external browser and throttles them, and on and on. Play in centralized platforms get stupid prizes.
And the media doesn’t care about this either, or the article would be about how terrible all social media was. But it’s not, it’s because X doesn’t “lean the correct way” so it’s special bad when they do it.
It's more so that these platforms rely on advertising and want to keep users locked in. The more time on their platforms, the more money the make. Promoting leaving their platforms hurts their bottom lines. And I seen this mentioned about Facebook in the past.
