{"id":27119,"date":"2025-10-20T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/?p=27119"},"modified":"2025-10-20T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:51:00","slug":"x-is-testing-a-new-way-to-open-links-without-leaving-a-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/x-is-testing-a-new-way-to-open-links-without-leaving-a-post","title":{"rendered":"X is Testing a New Way to Open Links Without Leaving a Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Points<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>X is testing a new way for users to open links.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The new feature lets you open a link without completely leaving the original post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The original post collapses to the bottom of the screen, keeping engagement buttons visible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The goal is to increase engagement on posts that contain links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social media platform X is testing a new feature that could solve a long-standing problem for creators: the fact that posts with links tend to get less engagement. The new &#8220;link experience,&#8221; which is now rolling out to some iOS users, will allow people to open a link without completely leaving the original post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s how it works: when you click a link, the web page will open, but the original post will collapse to the bottom of the screen. This means you can still see and interact with the &#8220;Like,&#8221; &#8220;Repost,&#8221; and other engagement buttons while you&#8217;re reading the linked article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to X&#8217;s head of product, Nikita Bier, the reason posts with links perform so poorly is that the web browser completely covers the post, and people simply &#8220;forget to Like or Reply.&#8221; This new design is an attempt to fix that by keeping the engagement buttons visible. &#8220;So X doesn&#8217;t get a clear signal whether the content is any good,&#8221; Bier explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, this is only a partial solution. X has also been accused of actively throttling links to certain websites, and Elon Musk himself has admitted that links &#8220;don&#8217;t get as much attention&#8221; on the platform. So, while a better user interface is a step in the right direction, it won&#8217;t solve the whole problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, the advice to creators remains the same: &#8220;write a solid caption&#8221; and make sure your post can stand on its own, with or without a click.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Social media platform X is testing a new feature that could solve a long-standing problem for creators: the fact that posts with links&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}