Musk admits X throttles links as ‘news influencers’ take over
X owner Elon Musk seemed to confirm what sharp-eyed users have suspected for months: that putting a link in your post on his social network is a good way to ensure it won’t go viral. Musk was replying to a post by the influential Silicon Valley investor Paul Graham, who opined that “the deprioritization of tweets with links in them is Twitter’s biggest flaw.” X’s main draw, Graham said, is “to find out what’s going on, and you can’t do that without links.” Musk’s
