CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”

Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by markstos on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:13PM (#31599306)

Besides technical reaosns, it could be to avoid bait-and-switch schemes, where a lot of engagement is built around one headline, and then it's changed to something with a completely different meaning.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by TwelveNights on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:18PM (#31599346)

I've always thought that Twitter adopted the same line of thinking, preventing tweets from being editable.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by jedberg on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:21PM (#31599385)

I think it twitter's case it was architectural. By treating tweets as immutable the could publish them on a pipeline and not worry about duplicate copies around the system being out of sync.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by mattnewton on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:32PM (#31599500)

That and early on it used sms as one of the interfaces, which is not editable.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by jedberg on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:35PM (#31599530)

They could always send another SMS with the edit. :)

But yes, that too. The whole system was designed around SMS which couldn't be "unsent".

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by fortran77 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:27PM (#31599450)

It's to prevent tweeting "LIKE this if you like Ice Cream" and then editing it to say "LIKE this if you like pedophilia"

Nobody would ever Like/Retweet anything if it could be changed later.

[ Parent | on HN ]