Elon Musk confirms that he’s limiting people’s ability to share outside news on X
4 months ago

Elon Musk confirms that he’s limiting people’s ability to share outside news on X

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Elon Musk has appeared to confirm that his social media company X, formerly Twitter, throttles traffic to other websites by stifling any posts that contain outside links. “Our algorithm tries to optimize time spent on X, so links don’t get as much attention, because there is less time spent if people click away,” Musk said at the time. “Best thing is to post content in long form on this platform.” Since buying Twitter for $44bn in October 2022 and renaming it X, Musk has tried to foster a new creator economy on the platform by encouraging people to post their material there instead of elsewhere, and giving some users a share of its revenue for popular posts. Earlier this month, British newspaper The Guardian announced that it would no longer post officially on X, calling it “a toxic media platform” whose owner had “used its influence to shape political discourse.”

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