X平台（原Twitter）可能正在降低包含外部链接帖子的优先级，导致用户在浏览时看到较少新闻报道。马斯克似乎证实了这一做法，他建议用户将链接放在回复中，而非主帖，以避免“懒惰链接”。此举可能与X平台试图减少用户流失至其他平台有关，并可能与其竞争对手Bluesky的崛起有关。此前有报道称X平台曾降低其竞争对手（如纽约时报和Facebook）链接的优先级，而降低外部链接优先级或进一步加剧这一趋势。

🤔 **X平台可能正在降低包含外部链接帖子的优先级：**马斯克暗示X平台会降低包含外部链接帖子的优先级，这意味着用户在浏览时可能会看到更少的新闻报道。

🔗 **马斯克建议将链接放在回复中，而非主帖：**为了避免“懒惰链接”，马斯克建议用户将链接放在回复中，而非主帖，这进一步证实了X平台降低外部链接帖子优先级的做法。

📉 **降低外部链接优先级可能与减少用户流失有关：**X平台此举可能旨在减少用户流失至其他平台，例如其竞争对手Bluesky，后者在近期用户数量激增。

⚔️ **Bluesky的崛起或加剧X平台的竞争压力：**Bluesky的用户参与度较高，而X平台降低外部链接优先级可能会进一步加剧其与Bluesky的竞争。

⚠️ **X平台曾被曝降低竞争对手链接优先级：**华盛顿邮报此前曾报道，X平台会降低其竞争对手（如纽约时报和Facebook）链接的优先级，降低外部链接优先级或延续这一趋势。

If you feel like you're not seeing many news stories while scrolling X, there might be a simple explanation: The site actively keeps them off your feed.

Elon Musk seemingly suggested that on Nov. 24, when he replied to another user on his social platform X — the website formerly known as Twitter — who claimed the site throttled the performance of posts with links. This would mean you'd likely see fewer articles from actual news sites.

Paul Graham, a popular poster with some 2 million followers, posted that "deprioritization of tweets with links in them is Twitter's biggest flaw" because "what draws me to Twitter is to find out what's going on, and you can't do that without links."

Musk responded, seemingly confirming Graham's point that posts with links get deprioritized.

Wrote Musk in response: "Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply. This just stops lazy linking."

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The suggestion from Musk seems like quite the strange way to share info. If you're sharing news, it would make sense — in a vacuum — to provide the link that gives more context. But such a link, of course, takes people off Musk's platform. Basically, he wants you to summarize the news — or anything else that requires a link — while hiding the full context in the replies.

Musk also retweeted a post that suggested posting everything directly to X because sharing links will affect your post's reach. That's another seeming admission that X is throttling posts with links.

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Musk's X deprioritizing links wouldn't be all that surprising. The Washington Post reported last year, for instance, that X slowed links to competitors Musk disliked, such as the New York Times and Facebook.

X, meanwhile, might have a real competitor in Bluesky, which has seen its users skyrocket in the wake of the election and Musk's diehard support for President-elect Donald Trump. Users have reported seeing increased, and better, engagement on Bluesky — and throttling links seemingly wouldn't help X's case.