Twitter has limited traffic to sites that Elon Musk criticizes - WP

Twitter, now known as X, has begun slowing down the speed of loading links to platforms that Elon Musk has previously criticized. to this conclusion Journalists from The Washington Post came .

According to the publication, when trying to open one of these sites, users are forced to wait about five seconds before the page loads. We are talking about Twitter's competitors - Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Subtrack, as well as the publications Reuters and the New York Times. As WP writes, all of them had previously become objects of ridicule and criticism from Twitter owner Elon Musk. Links to other platforms, including The Washington Post and Fox News sites, as well as social networks Mastodon and Youtube, opened in less than a second.

After the publication of this material, the social network X eliminated the delay time when loading sites. But it is unknown whether normal service has been restored to all sites, the publication writes. It is also unclear when exactly the delays in loading web pages began. A Hacker News user who spoke to the publication shared that he first noticed a delay in loading New York Times articles on August 1st. That day, Elon Musk criticized the publication, calling it an “apologist for racial genocide” because of an article about South Africa.

Elon Musk and Company X did not respond to WP's queries. A spokesperson for the NYT said that the publication also noticed a delay in loading their page through the social network X, but did not receive any explanation from the platform about this. The co-founders of Subtrack demanded that X reverse the decision about the slow loading of links.

According to WP, companies spend millions of dollars making sure their sites load as quickly as possible because even minor delays cause traffic to drop. According to a study conducted by Google, 53% of users leave a website if it takes longer than three seconds to load.

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