Elon Musk Confirms X No Longer Penalizes Link Posts
Users and researchers react after clarification emerges in thread with Zuckerberg and Graham.
A public X thread began when Nikita Bier told Mark Zuckerberg that links no longer need placement in replies. Paul Graham asked about penalties for link-containing posts. Elon Musk replied that X has not penalized such tweets for over a year. AI researchers and investors expressed surprise, noting prior habits of splitting posts and lingering uncertainty about distribution effects despite the stated policy change.
@paulg @nikitabier @finkd We haven’t for over a year
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Joshua Achiam@jachiam0Wait, for real? This is a huge deal and yet I somehow notice that even with this coming down from on high I still somehow feel nervous that putting a link in OP will get a post nuked.
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MW Mckay Wrigley@mckaywrigley@jachiam0 they keep saying this, but it’s very much not true in practice. you’ll get better visibility on link below still, and given the importance of a lot of what you share i’d still do it the “old” way.
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AE Adrien Ecoffet@AdrienLE@jachiam0 Maybe he meant for Zuck personally
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PG Paul Graham@paulg@nikitabier @finkd You no longer penalize tweets with links in them?
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SA Steven Adler@sjgadler@paulg @nikitabier @finkd I believe it's been said that they were never directly penalized. But there were various indirect negative pressures on them? Which might still exist
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