Since Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X, he's made many questionable decisions, but his latest action seems to be the most logical of them all.
The world's richest man appeared on Tuesday with a new post on the social network, in which he wrote that he would remove text formatting options for posts, because his eyes are already bleeding.
Due to the immediate and excessive use of bold on X, we are removing it from the main timeline
– he wrote, adding that from now on it will be necessary to click on the details of the post to see individual parts of the text in bold.
According to Elon Musk, in addition to the bold font, italics and all other formatting styles will be removed from the home page, as they were informed that some accounts are abusing it and manipulating users, making them click on their content. Offer some value in return. By the way, such accounts have been targeted for months, and by Elon Musk in April He saidIt will start suspending users who resort to similar methods.
By the way, text formatting options appeared on the platform in April 2023, and since then the phenomenon has begun to spread, which Musk has repeatedly spoken about. Although it was not mentioned when the rich texts would be removed from the interface's home page, they were still visible when we wrote our article.
Due to immediate and excessive use of bold on 𝕏, it will be removed from display in the main timeline.
You'll have to click on the post details to see anything in bold. My eyes are bleeding.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2024
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