Every once in a while, X (formerly Twitter) CTO Elon Musk realizes he's made a rash or simply bad decision and reverses himself. Oh, wait. That virtually never happens. Even today's announcement that X is bringing back article headlines is a half-reversal, at best.
In August, X made the head-scratching decision to strip article headlines out of tweets. It was a small, annoying change that ultimately turned one of X's key features, its usefulness as a source for breaking news, into a hunt for stories about breaking news. Following the change, article tweets looked like out-of-context images. Tweet text doesn't link to anything, and if you want to read a story, you have to know to click on the image.
