A new change has arrived on Twitter, read X, and practically no one likes it: every link shared on the social network has lost its title integrated into the previewthereby creating confusion between locals and outsiders and annoying the media and readers in almost equal measure.

As you know, if you use or have used Twitter, give it a call This format was primarily, but not exclusively, characterized by articles in the press. After all, almost every page has a title and many contain images.

But let’s say, because it’s true, that’s how articles in the press (magazines, blogs, etc.) were mostly distinguished. Until now. And that’s it the platform “refreshed” the format according to your interests, removing all references to the title in the preview. To give you an idea, this is what news on Twitter looks like now:

It used to look like this (embedded posts still show the caption in the preview):

Previously, just a few days ago, the headline of the news appeared right above the site’s domain name, something that, contrary to Elon Musk’s opinion, or at least what I and many other people think, was more aesthetically pleasing. But the saddest thing is that regardless of taste, the previous design was much more practical.

The most important thing is The previous format helped to quickly distinguish that it was a linkand not the image because the click behavior is not the same. But unfortunately, this is also a desired effect: Musk wants to avoid traffic loss and the user leaving the site to consult anything.

In fact, Musk wants content and conversations around him to happen on Twitter, that is, on X, and so we came to this. Despite the fact that neither users nor advertisers – and the platform does not overflow from them – did not express their disapproval of the measure.