Will Twitter (X) roll back part or all of the October change to link embeds in a meaningful way before the end of 2023?

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This market resolves YES if an embed is reworked or reverted such that the default behaviour is to show >75 characters from the embed's title or >75 characters from the description. Either or both will resolve as YES.

This market will resolve NO there is no change, or if there is a change but user input is required to view (for example, mouseover, clicking), or if it is part of a premium subscription not available to all users, or if it is a non-default setting.

This will only be tested on desktop in a Chromium browser at 1440p. If there is clearly reported ambiguity such as A/B testing where both groups have a substantial population, there will be a week wait to allow things to become more clear before resolution.

Musk promised this change in August, and now it is here.

Here it is covered by The Verge. And here is an example of the new embed look:

Here is an example of how the same post looks on a client that hadn't received the update.

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Titles in link previews are back on desktop!

However, they only appeared on Jan 3rd (then disappeared, then reappeared), best I can tell from articles like this one:

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/04/twitter-x-headlines-link-preview/

This was too late for the end-of-2023 deadline.

Creator is inactive, resolving NO.

Current status: the change has been rolled back on mobile for a few weeks now, but not on desktop. Since this question specifically says the test will be done on desktop, this is looking like a NO unless something changes soon.

Did you really mean ">75chars"? That's gonna be a long title! I haven't gone all-in simply because of that ambiguity: this market is definitely "YES" in spirit, but it's not clear to me that it's "YES" by the letter.

@PatrickStevens Actually that's not Twitter putting a title in it, that text is in the image itself from substack:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fastralcodexten.substack.com%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fpost_preview%2F104605044%2Ftwitter.jpg%3Fversion%3D2

I'm currently seeing no titles on desktop, but I am seeing titles on mobile, some greater than 75 characters, and some truncated to less than 75 characters lol. Hopefully on desktop there'll be a bit more room and it might be consistently over the 75 char limit?