endeavorance 🕊️ on Nostr: Something notable about the “X/Twitter added a 5 second delay on links to websites ...
Something notable about the “X/Twitter added a 5 second delay on links to websites Musk doesn’t like” story is that it’s well understood in the tech industry that every second matters for retention.
You lose about half of your would-be traffic if your link doesn’t “load” within 3 seconds.
They’re leveraging a dark pattern to reduce traffic at scale.
That is the kind of thing that should be illegal to do as a massive platform. Twisting the web.
#twitter #policy
You lose about half of your would-be traffic if your link doesn’t “load” within 3 seconds.
They’re leveraging a dark pattern to reduce traffic at scale.
That is the kind of thing that should be illegal to do as a massive platform. Twisting the web.
#twitter #policy