X once again adds headlines to article links — but with tiny text
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The change makes it easier to know what you’re clicking on.
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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    After removing headlines from URL cards on X (formerly Twitter), the platform is adding them back — but they don’t work quite the same as before.

    Some of us at The Verge are seeing on the web that headlines and website title pages are now appearing over the images that link to those pages, which makes it a lot easier to know what you’re clicking on.

    For example, if a headline or title is too long, it gets cut off with an ellipses, and the text is pretty small.

    But it’s an improvement from how things used to work, where the images would just include the domain of the website it linked out to.

    X stopped showing headlines last year because owner Elon Musk thought it would make posts look better.

    Musk promised in November that headlines would reappear over URL cards in an “upcoming release,” and it seems that change is starting to roll out.

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