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Description
Welcome to X (formerly known as Twitter), your trusted digital town square where conversations unfold in real time, and the world connects through breaking news, live events, podcasts, and everything in between.
Whether you're passionate about sports, tech, music, or politics, X is your front-row seat to what’s happening across the globe.
X isn’t just another social media app, it’s the ultimate destination for staying well informed, sharing ideas, and building communities. With X, you’re always in the loop with relevant trending topics and breaking news, delivered instantly to your screen, raw and unfiltered.
What You Can Do on X:
• Follow breaking news from around the world before it hits the headlines, and stay ahead of the curve with real-time updates on trending topics and viral conversations.
• Post your thoughts, photos, and videos with a global community. Join millions of users in shaping public dialogue across social, cultural, and political conversations.
• Discover Grok, the AI assistant powered by X’s real-time data. You can ask Grok to summarize trending news, explain videos, or give you more context about posts.
• Stream live video or go live with Spaces, our audio feature that enables you to host discussions, hold interviews, or start your next live podcast. Whether you're streaming a concert, a live game, or your thoughts on a hot topic, X keeps your audience engaged.
• Watch videos: from live breaking news and sports clips to podcasts and gaming sessions that last up to 3 hours long. Many of the world’s leading voices, in comedy, gaming, podcasting, and politics, all share their content on X.
• Connect and chat privately with friends, followers, customers, or collaborators through Direct Messages.
• Join and build communities tailored to your interests: from sports news, gaming, entertainment, crypto, entrepreneurship, tech, and more.
• Subscribe to X Premium to unlock exclusive features like a blue checkmark, boosted visibility, prioritized replies, fewer ads, longer videos, and post editing. X Premium also gives you access to creator revenue sharing and the ability to offer exclusive content to subscribers.
Why X?
In a world of constant change, X is your real-time source to stay ahead of the curve, connect with people, and explore diverse perspectives. From breaking live news and trending memes to top podcasts and live streams from your favorite creators, X brings it all together in one powerful social experience.
Privacy Policy: https://x.com/privacy
Terms and Conditions: https://x.com/tos
What's New in Version 11.71.1
We made improvements and squashed bugs so X is even better for you.
Seller
Name
X Corp.
Information
Developer
Categories
Version
11.71.1
Size
418.2 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated 17+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes
Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco or Drug Use or References
Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
Compatibility
iOS 15.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
4.5 of 5 (320,043 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2026-03-06
Free Speech lives here
I was literally brainwashed until I joined this app. We are living through the age of globalist propaganda. Thank you X for being a shining light of free speech and expression.
2026-03-06
Thank
Beautiful X where i can scroll freely with truths from wonderful people around the world. It is like non stop inspiration train. Great work! The truthfulness is full filled
2026-03-05
Phenomenal like the 8th Wonder of the World
What more you can say than Sexy Rexy Tesla or better yet in Grok we trust ❤️🍷 Like a fine wine, getting better with age! Zuckerberg needs to lift
2026-03-05
Glen
Thanks for all the news, I read!
2026-03-05
Theme
My beautiful dark-grey interface has gone 😬
Update: dark theme disappeared from the settings too 😬
Everything becomes white 🤮
2026-03-04
Please bring the dark mode back
Please bring the dark mode back
2026-03-04
WILL GET ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. SOON
YOU ARE THE BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD 🗺️🫶❤️🙏✌️
2026-03-03
App almost unusable now.
Massive performance issues. Switching tabs hangs the app for 3 seconds until it backloads 2gb of tracking bloat into memory. It doesn't take this much CPU to load a timeline or notifications. It's absolutely choking on vibe coded bloat.
Needs some actual developers to optimize this mess.
Latest iPhone hasn't got enough grunt to make this amount of sloppy code work smoothly.
2026-03-03
Free Speech
Thank you for saving free speech Elon Musk
2026-03-02
Nothing about this app is fun anymore
It’s not the centre of conversation on the internet anymore, even if you block all the spam bluecheck accounts all posts on the for you are vague posting/ragebait, and all replies under and popular posts are bluecheck spam, even instagram and tik tok comments have more genuine discussion because they aren’t literally pay to win. Try deleting the app and you realise you were only opening it in a habit formed back when it was called twitter, your time will be so much better spent reading Wikipedia or the news or an ebook
2026-03-02
Toxic cesspool
X has become a toxic cesspool or trolls and ignorance. I try to use it as little as possible and never scroll through the feed
2026-03-01
Good 4 gooning
G4L
2026-03-01
Twitter not X
Who tf seriously even calls this “X”. I will always call it Twitter. What a lame name for a platform. “X” 😂😂😂🤣🤣
2026-03-01
A tad obscure?
Even people who were alive and coherent at the time, might have difficulty joining the dots here. The ad ran at the superbowl that year, no?
2026-02-28
injustice
Does the fact that I'm from Russia mean you can block me? Look at yourself, you're the one in the Epstein files, not me—the ordinary person. You should be ashamed of what you're doing. I feel disgusted living in the same world with people like that. Twitter was better.
2026-02-28
Stevie D
Just love that you get all the news from all points of view. Also you always seem to get breaking stories first on X
2026-02-28
I hate you
I hate you for forcing me to update the damn app because of the stupid DMs update. I hate you.
2026-02-28
Touch sensitive “like” zoned
Whatever you have done in regards to the screen edge when if watching videos, where you double tap to skip forward, you are now forever adding like hearts to whatever your watching. Cheap trick for posters to rack up likes I guess
2026-02-28
stop ruining this app
bring back the old gif selection please. the frequently used was extremely handy. “x chat” is a buggy mess as well. the old dms was perfect. your platform is overrun by bots and ai sludge. elon, you’re terrible at this
2026-02-28
Risilver.com.au
frosty fruits
2026-02-28
Feed useless
The following tab has been broken for a month now with no fix. Instead of showing tweets from people you follow in order of time, it now shows random tweets from random times.
2026-02-28
⭐️This Is It⭐️
You will find the very important issues and people here that the (lame) mainstream media ignore😵💫
2026-02-27
X is full of liars
Lots of misinformation on X
2026-02-26
New to X
Years ago I downloaded to twitter app but never really used it. Recently I’ve reinstalled it under the banner of X and have enjoyed the content. I’ve also been making comments and adding content by reposting, liking content and posting my own memes.
Good times
2026-02-26
UGLY CAPITALISM
Just Rage baiting- Garnering Clicks and Spreading hate left and right on this app. Please for your sanity do not stay on here for more than you should.
2026-02-26
Still call it Twitter
Thanks Elon :)
2026-02-26
Boss
The best
2026-02-25
Silence of Speech
I joined X 3 months ago out of curiosity. It was like being dropped in the middle of a major riot in a capital city of a country at war. It was hell and yet the mood in the real world was casual, relaxed and peaceful. I tried to diffuse any negative Posts sensibly. Observing multiple global events breaching rule of law, human rights, international law, crimes against humanity. After credible research, verified by leaders in countries outside of SM, I Posted injustice, danger to the world, watching democracies decay, amplified by fear by a system (no human-no ethics) rewarding hate with dopamine per share & Likes, validating headlines, by Volume, not Truths. When a Post struck the biggest, most beautiful ego in the history of time, my algorithm changed. New Posts get no Likes and the minimal Views feels like Spies by a man I despise. When Elon bought Twitter, he invited Trump to rejoin the new X as a crucial step for Free Speech, saying the ban was ‘morally bad’ and a ‘foolish’ decision. 25,000 children are murdered, is this forced circumcision? Do you knew DATA was also stolen, in real time, from the mobile phones of children, fleeing for their lives, gathering dead bodies after each bombing, monitoring movements in a laboratory test, gathered by Google and Amazon WS, collated by Palantir and sold to the British NHS. Does Elon believe the decision to ban this was foolish and morally bad? The truth is “You can’t handle the truth!”. In 2026 is it moral to use a dense population of people (47% kids) as a cohort in a lab test to “see how they run”? Yes or No?
2026-02-25
Stop showing me irrelevant posts
I am sick and tired of seeing posts from people i don’t follow. It will only be relevant to me once i can curate my feed to be exactly as i want it to be
2026-02-24
1111
Love it
2026-02-23
Yay
Yay
2026-02-23
The Truth will set you Free
Community notes and being able to use Grok to verify any post is the ultimate truth seeking town square
2026-02-22
You've ruined X
X is now completely unusable for me. My following timeline is now all over the place. Maybe let me see what I want to see rather than forcing what you want me to see. Deleting the app after using it every day for years ☹️
2026-02-22
Upside down clown world
This app has turned into a jumbled up hot mess. Sort it out
2026-02-22
Love it
Easy to access and read updates on what's happening around the world.
2026-02-21
Very controlled
You’re not allowed to have your own opinion or interests because people on there will dox you for it
2026-02-21
Censoring for Israel
Yet another social media deleting the accounts that expose Israeli warcrimes. Grow a backbone and stop kowtowing to Israel.
2026-02-21
Kids can access this and it needs more security so kids cannot see this.
I scrolled for maybe 20-30 minutes and all i saw was very inappropriate things and people getting severely injured and hospitalised. Please add more security so kids CANNOT access this.
2026-02-21
Follow tab not working
The ‘Following’ tab is not working and I can’t get anything to show while using the app. The web version works correctly, the app doesn’t work at all. I also can’t find anywhere to report issues?
2026-02-21
I don’t like the new name
That’s literally it. I don’t like the name
2026-02-20
.
Huge market for everything. You search for
Work or any uodates im the world this app is very updated!
2026-02-19
On the comeback
When we went from Twitter to X this platform fell off a cliff. It’s now getting back its mojo. Lots of fun, no serial knuckleheads, a lot better& pleasurable experience
2026-02-19
Dorothy
Many thank yous to you , GOD BLESS YOU !🫀
2026-02-19
Change it back to twitter
Change it back to twitter
2026-02-18
Follow tab is now random
Disappointing
2026-02-18
Free Speech
Keeping free speech alive in the Shodows of the nwo…
2026-02-17
Billionaire Scum
At the turn of the decade, twitter was the internet’s single best social media platform. A real time information hub on news, social connection, community development, and a breakdown of social barriers.
Since Musk bought the app, it has only become more politically inflamed, (by design) with less information verification infrastructure, worse troubleshooting (the search function barely works at this point), and a monetisation scheme which has ruined the actual information aspect of the app. Not to mention the exploitative AI integration, and when I say exploitative, I mean ‘actively poisoning the people of Memphis in order to make abusive material.’
Do not get on Twitter in 2025, your life will be better for it
2026-02-17
Mr Simpson reviews
I’m not being censored by Meta for disagreeing and calling out Bots posting on the situation in Iran. This can only be a good thing thank you
2026-02-17
Go X
X keeps getting better and better it’s my go too for information
2026-01-31
A great platform for child predators and insecure men everywhere
For a cheap monthly plan, you can fill the pockets of a billionaire and generate unlimited illegal content of children and women. Elon will also allow you to spew conspiracy theories and incite violence with a blue checkmark next to your name, ensuring that insecure males have a massive platform to hate on anyone who threatens their masculinity. Another great thing about X is that plenty of people in the third world can now make money by running bot accounts which are solely intended to spread more hatred and division in the west. Isn’t it nice how Elon is doing Putin’s work for him?
Ironically, on the app owned by the guy who never shuts up about FREE SPEECH, criticism of Isr*el, Elon, and Epstein, is heavily restricted and frequently results in accounts being shadowbanned. However, it’s perfectly fine for users with handles like “AryanSupremacy88” and “IHATEWOMEN” to encourage genocide and threaten SA.
2025-12-27
Twitter review
Twitterbit boring- not like 'Insta' most Ppl r off twitter as its not like tik tok etc... is good but not many likes or re tweets for me. Would like to reach wider audience but without all those free followers that end up being unbearable. Want to reach audience I want but hard to do.
*All of the above, though frustrated my ex follows me on Twitter but I can’t & we are good friends we don’t know why.
I have looked up his name but a bunch of others with same name come up.
His name is Cristian Cuellar no other name & told me his image is related to Mexican even though he usually lives in Colombia & is here holiday in Australia, can you ‘Twitter’ tell me why, I’m not very tech minded & if it has something to do with my settings, etc??
2025-12-01
HORRIBLE APP
where do I even begin to start. I’ve had twitter for over 4 years now, I just recently deleted it and never looked back. Twitter has a TERRIBLE report system.
They keep suspending my accounts for no reason, I barely write more then 7 comments a day, I don’t spam post. Yet they always suspend my accs for “spam”. I’ve seen some really toxic people on twitter, using such nasty terms to hate on people, many people have reported those accounts, but yet those are always the type of accounts to STAY. Yet it’s always the innocent people’s accounts that get suspended. I’ve written several appeals 4 months ago to get my wrongfully suspended twitter accounts back, they say it takes 14 days for an appeal to be accepted. Bs.
My account is more than clear that I am HUMAN. And there is 0 SPAM. I’ve seen some people made death threats and say horrible stuff, when I report those accounts twitter always tells me “Sorry after reviewing the acc, this account doesn’t violate our rules”.
are you serious? So twitter is toxic af don’t get this app. They obviously don’t care abt suspension of accs that actually deserve to be removed. They prefer twitter to keep the toxicity running.
2025-11-15
Loving the direction it’s heading
X has been on fire lately. I jump on for a quick squiz and end up scrolling way longer than I meant to. It’s fast, smooth as, and actually pretty fun to muck around on. Feels like the whole place has had a fresh coat of paint.
The mix of news, tech stuff and all the random yarns people spin makes it a ripper way to keep up with what’s going on. Videos load quick, posts are easy to follow, and the updates keep rolling in without any drama.
All in all, it’s turning into a real beauty of an app. Stoked with how it’s shaping up. Keep it up!
2025-10-19
Bug fixes?
I don’t know what bug fixes you are referring to but all the bugs I seen in the last 10 or more releases in this app are still there.
1: automatic scrolling to top post when not needed which requires scrolling down to find where I was before this occurred. This is the most annoying.
2: partial obscuration on top of notifications which makes it really difficult to select post. This does not always occur.
3: ( no a bug as such but …) no option to disable so called ‘graphic content’ warning on some posts. I always select ‘show’ irregardless.
4: opacity of bottom bar makes it difficult to see the bottom bar at times. The background is either to clear or background blurred at times.
2025-08-03
X has come of age, at last.
I’ve been enjoying X immensely since Imrejoined a few weeks ago. Incorporating Grok into it has been a great idea and it seems to intelligently answer many questions. I think its value will increase as time goes on. I'm most impressed with being able to follow the subjects I'm interested in with the app giving similar suggestions upon the subject. I left it initially because it was so unrelentingly toxic - full of fight videos and angry, uneducated morons.
Getting rid of the bots would be a huge step in the right direction. I don't understand why they can't be banned outright.
2025-06-21
Health Centre is useless Worst I’ve dealt with.
So long story short I got hacked momentarily was able to get my account back but X suspended my account due to the post that the hacker made, I tried to appeal that with no luck. Then I wanted to delete my account since I couldn’t use it with no luck. Many times I’ve spoken to the help centre with the same answers of they can’t do anything about this. It’s criminal that they can hold my information when I don’t want the account any more and I’m not getting help at all fixing a simple thing if I was speaking to a real human who actually understood my issue. If they just looked at where the hackers IP address, I’m sure it’s not coming from mine so that’s one way of telling that it wasn’t me posting and I should be able to deactivate my account to protect my private information.
2025-06-17
Not user friendly AT ALL
I made a new account and ended up being told X thinks my actions are automated so now after one day on the app I can’t view posts, like, tweet, view my bookmarks or do literally anything. I understand that X needs to be cautious of bots but this is so unfair to new users, and it drives people away from wanting to even use the app. I wasn’t excessively liking posts or engaging in any behaviour that goes against X guidelines. The worst thing is, the app wouldn’t even tell me what I did wrong and I had to log in through a web browser to get a proper notification after I tried to tweet. The app even prompted me to pay for a subscription so my ‘rate limit’ would go away.. such an obvious money grab. Why are there so much unnecessary secret rules new users have to follow after JUST downloading the app? I simply used it as it’s supposed to be and I’ve been punished for it. X is not user friendly at all and clearly only cares about paying users. It’s extremely disappointing because this app has so much potential and I really wanted to like it. Please fix this.
2025-05-26
Please read this before downloading. Do not download this app as it can randomly lock you out
This is the worst app on Apple Apps; I’m being serious.
I’ve never been locked out of an app, twice, before for: “Unusual amounts of time of usage.”. Whenever I’ve tried to access my account through the X Help Centre they say my phone number and email account are not in use or are incorrect. I have literally done everything correct, 110% entered my correct information and X still won’t give me access to my locked account.
To everyone using X for the first time or are considering using X; please do not. You will have your details on their platform and have a high risk of not being able to access your account ever again due to no common-sense tech team helping you; and this is because there is no tech person; it’s literally a ticket system that makes you do all the work without a human on the other side.
I doubt Mr. Musk will read this; but I hope he adds a contact email with a tech team that are ready to help people with my problem. I was really excited to use this app as Mr. Musk believes in freedom of speech, as do I.
All the best to everyone that has experienced my problem.
2025-02-07
Help page is useless
I am currently trying to change my email address due to being hacked but my account got flagged as suspicious. Now have to wait 48hrs to do anything. Meaning that hackers can do as they please! Thankfully I changed my password but apparently one can't change password then attempt to change email. MUSK really doesn't care about X formerly Twitter users one bit! He has to make everything difficult! I am very mad and stressed out as there is no way to fix the problem right away. I merely wish to change my email address, is that too much to ask for...apparently yes! If the developer sees this I would very much like actual assistance in changing my email to secure my account due to my email address being hacked! Please help!
2024-12-11
X Censorship Out Of Control
Whilst I’m certain Elon is not aware of some legacy issues… I am permanently banned and have no chance of creating another account etc etc as advices by X. All for apparently breaking a rule which is nonsensical as I was not being abusive or threatening at all… They offer me a link to appeal which never works… I’ve logged in several times to try… shame as I wanted to try the upgrade… which perversely they will allow me to pay for but never be allowed to post or follow… my crime… posting pro-Trump material… laughable! Free Speech in America but get banned for asserting simple positions which turned out to be true… 1 star as there is ZERO chance of dealing with my complaint via their customer service etc… Sad… been in the app for 5+ years. Won’t be logging in again!
2024-09-01
Jump to last read Post/Notification
(All referring to the “For You” tab).. Especially on PC, when you click “__ more posts”, you’re taken to the very top of your time line, forcing you to scroll down to find your last read post to continue from…Clicking on the above should take you to the next unread post, so you’re not backtracking… Also, when the IOS App reloads, it forgets your last unread post, so it’s the same problem. & when you click on Notifications tab, it goes straight to your most recent, when it should also go to your last unread Notification. Plus, read posts should sync across your account on all your devices, so you’re not repeatedly scrolling through read posts… Very glaring issues STILL not addressed….
Edit…Reduced to two starts because the above STILL aren’t fixed.
2024-08-23
Don’t like censorship
Have you ever been de platformed by Twitter; at least to having Tweets or responses to Tweets unilaterally removed without reason; I’m always polite. It had to be the topic I chose or reacted to or perhaps what I chose to re tweet; I do like Robert Malone and John Campbell and retweet Epoch Times articles. The algorithm used by Twitter appears sensitive to issues and topics. I wonder if they will publish this “review”.?? All humour by definition pokes fun at someone or some group and some people will be offended by being made fun of. In the old communist totalitarian states such as Poland the only way of expressing the truth was in humour and then only subtly. X is a platform which permits freedom of expression which no doubt offends many. Thank God for X
2024-04-07
Sad but true
Our account was “throttled” for whatever reason by the bureaucrats at Twitter and, despite being the official account of the Apple logo designer and our agency, we continue to be shadow banned. We paid for premium, thinking this might help to authenticate us but alas, we still literally reach only 2 or 3 of our 1659 followers with posts. It’s shameful and a complete waste of time. Threads is not much better, although in 6 months we now have 2509 followers there from a standing start, so that’s something. What justification social media sites have for making you irrelevant and what they hope to gain is anyone’s guess. But now, as we seek to suspend our premium membership for its absolute lack of any value whatsoever, the app says we signed up on a different device (a phone that died) and so cannot suspend our subscription. We had high hopes when Elon ranted and raved about how he was going to make X better than the Twitter of old. Now we realize it was just spin.
2024-03-24
If you want to talk about Roman and European history look elsewhere!
The website’s war on so-called “gender ideology” means I can’t even talk about the cis-alpine Gauls without my twee-SORRY, my *posts* having their visibility limited. Apparently the new ownership of X decided that apart from throwing away all the recognisable branding, moderation/user support, and making it so that I have to block a dozen bot accounts a day (even though fighting bots was the reason the new owner said he bought it!), I can’t even talk about the Roman empire on X (formerly twitter) anymore using latin prefixes otherwise the trans people might win or whatever the hell is the thinking.
The website is functional at a basic level, I still use it, but there is no denying that the user experience is significantly worse than it was before. Unfortunately no other app has been able to centralise the user base X (formerly twitter) anywhere else. Soon that may not be the case with X (formerly twitter) having 23% less daily users as compared with before the new ownership entered the picture and I’m not surprised.
I give the app two stars because I can still technically use it and get the occasional moment that reminds me of the old website. Every decision that has been made by the app’s new management has only made the experience of using the app worse, the replies that people like the most don’t even appear at the top of the page anymore, I have to sift through all the replies by people who paid for a blue check. This is a *freemium* social media website, that’s how terrible it is now!
2024-01-31
Experience X
It’s been a few months now that I joined X and I find it fascinating how other countries and people in general think about issues that we all face. I’m waking up that there are certain topics that we don’t dare cross yet it’s amazing how certain things that people post don’t get called out and they might make people feel uncomfortable and angry but that seems to be normal. My opinion and other people’s opinions are different and this social interaction I find fascinating , they can’t change me and I can’t change them, it’s kind of addictive to say the least but generally X opens your eyes to what’s happening now and for this I’m grateful. Keep up the good work you guys at X because without free speech we’d all be lost in these testing times, peace and love to all on X
2024-01-30
The good but main problem
See it’s pretty good and I like it’s Fortnite update news especially but in some ways it doesn’t give me the power straight away on what I want to control like I don’t want to see weird posts from people who are not so right and write down some very unfriendly jokes or show some very inappropriate or gruesome parts! Personally I was actually horrified at how opposite the app could get me in some ways! Overall it’s not bad because it does help me but I just wish there was an easier way of finding the main things wanted to be looked at and a better way of getter the opposite out of the system permanently for those who are very so much not into that stuff and do not want to see it!
2024-01-17
A dying star
X the social media site previously known as Twitter is slowly dying it's lost its brightness & will eventually become a black hole . At its best X was the place to go for inside information news from people who where there at the scene. There was good argument & debate on a wide range of topics. Unfortunately it has become a source of misinformation & instead of debate we have abuse. Those of a particular political persuasion gather together to bully & castigate their political opponents or those naive enough to make statements without checking their facts. It has allowed the racists & the far right to find each other & claim some form of legitimacy.
It's a pity but really it's a microcosm of life humans are a nasty bunch give a man an inch & he will take a foot give him a yard & he will want a swimming pool installed.
2023-10-09
Warning accounts get suspended without explanation
X can be a great platform. The spaces are great to listen to debates and interesting topics. However, X is rampant with activists false reporting everyone they don’t like and troublesome algorithms that deboost your account acting on a social credit. If you interact with an account you can get deboosted also if they have low ‘tweepcred’ without you knowing. X also suspends your account without notice or explanation. Not sure if this is to force you to be a paid user. I would be cautious investing your time and money into a platform where you can lose everything in an instant without explanation.
2023-10-04
If it wasn’t broken it didn’t need “fixing”
Should have just been left alone but I can see why it is now called “X”! X clearly stands for bad juju which is now what has become of something that was good!! Firstly let’s address the issue of giving us users the option of disabling the most annoying freaking chirping sound effect when you refresh a page (if your gonna change Twitter to X and take away the logo and name why add the sound?!??).
Secondly spaces has got to go it’s just as annoying as the chirp sounds but when they randomly pop up at the top of your feed and won’t go away straight up does my head in who wants to hear people talk about absolute nonsense 🤷🏼♀️ i could go on but im not gonna because no matter what we say nothing changes..!
2023-08-21
Idk
The way the update stays vauge with “making things better” when objectively the app has increasingly worse from tweet limits, dms not sending or receiving notifications and messages, gifs or images not being sent. The time lines are annoyingly overloaded with crypto, or fake business ads or random men boosting their nobody accounts.
Randomly removing features or implying or threatening to remove features that are pivotal in users controlling their engagement just makes the user base panic ever other day and consistently backing out of “improvements” just proves how spineless of a direction the app has in a towards trajectory. The rebranding is lazy and despite what Elon thinks only the worse side of the internet think X sites are cool 🙃 there is nothing that’s been improved, and anything that does add new features or changes to the app is overshadowed by the failure rate
2023-08-19
Significant loss of usability
Used to be able to get up-to-date news and tweets from people on the ground at big events and moments, now all my “For You” is at least a day old. The number of ads is overwhelming and completely irrelevant to my interests (many advertisements look shady too, like I may be scammed) and I am fed a lot of content from conservative and even far right people and organisations, even after indicating “not interested” or even blocking. Now saying they will take away the “block” function which was there to help keep people safe and allow them to have a say on who and what they interact with online. This all on top of elevating the voices of those who paid for a free service, ensuring inequality in the “town hall”. Have to scroll through all the blue check comments to find a real person who has something to say. Spend less and less time on here, have moved to other apps unlikely to download the latest updates to X. What would be the point? To get less functionality?
2023-08-06
Declining User Experience
The app now has some serious bugs, and it seems to be worsening over time. Frequently, an attempt to scroll back to the top, or selecting from the sidebar menu is unsuccessful, necessitating the frequent force-closing of the app. The audio from videos tends to persist even after transitioning to the next post, resulting in a jumbled cacophony of sounds from different videos. The ads, apart from being intense, are also monotonous. Attempts to block an ad often lead to it opening instead, which makes me suspect this could be an intentional design feature to boost revenue. The nature of posts has grown increasingly negative, with random users often making derogatory comments. Once an avid Twitter user who accessed the app multiple times daily, I now use it only a few times a month.
2023-08-05
Elon ruined this app
Prioritising verified users in replies has made those who support the website have their voice heard above the rest. Now it's just created a vacuum of people that think they're opinion matters more than the rest because it gets more engagement.
The rebrand from something iconic to something generic a high school kid would think looks cool makes absolutely no sense, much like most changes that have happened since the takeover.
The for you page is garbage, the message limit on normal accounts has impacted small businesses, and a year on there is still no substantial benefit for purchasing verified over the previous verification check system.
I was on board with him taking over at first, but the longer he's got a say in the website, the more I think he just bought it to amplify his own opinions.
2023-07-25
Dip In Quality
I’ve used twitter for a long time to follow some of my favourite artists but I feel like it’s taken a huge dip in quality. From questionable layout/site choices to terrible bugs like 5 second videos on playing the first 2 seconds over and over. Feeds used to be a lot more personalised but now it just feels like scrolling through a trending page. Bots are everywhere, and comments are no longer filtered through the most liked but verified people will show at the top. I can sort of understand these choices (people paying money should be rewarded somewhat) but in comparison to old twitter it just strikes me as very odd choices. Wouldn’t recommend it cause it really doesn’t have anything that other social apps have.
2023-06-18
Not what l thought it be
Got banned from posting anything after 3 days for some unknown reasons. I can’t work out any violation of the rules after reading them and sent a message asking why l have been suspended without any response after nearly a week and still being restricted l just keep getting a generic message in my feed telling my l violated twitter rules and it could take more then a week for it to be lifted without any explanation. After scrolling through the feed for a few days and seeing some of the things that people say to each other and post lm start to think the rules aren’t applied fairly to everyone because every few post violates it rules in some way if you go to the letter of them. I cancel facebook a long time ago and if this is the way this is run l won’t be here long ether but in saying all that it’s been a good time waster why l been stuck at home with a broken arm that’s the only reason it got 2 stars.
2023-06-15
Improved, But Room for More User Control
Twitter's new ownership has made notable strides in the right direction with its algorithms, especially for those like me who primarily use it as a sports news hub. The platform now does a better job at tailoring content to my interests. This is a significant improvement over the previous management, which often flooded my feed with left-leaning political content, despite my clear preference for sports news.
However, despite these improvements, there are still a few kinks that need ironing out. I've noticed that the app tends to revert from the 'Following' tab to the 'For You' tab. While the 'For You' tab is more refined now, it occasionally throws in content that's not aligned with my interests.
In the future, I would appreciate more user control over what I see, allowing for a fully customizable Twitter experience that stays consistent with my preferences. All in all, Twitter's latest updates are promising, but there's room for improvement to make the user experience truly personalized and user-controlled.
2023-05-12
FREEDOM
Since the controversial Musk take over of twitter, the app has has become one of the most important tools to share information and fight against establishment censorship. The priority of truth and freedom of press is truly a fresh breath of air. The inability to access information through means of social media was becoming a big problem. Many of the legacy social media apps utilised the Trojan horse of “hate speech” and “misinformation” to censor information and views opposing that of the establishment, but musk has bought us an app wherein we can truly access the world. Thank you Musk
10/10
2023-02-04
Unhelpful
Don’t bother. I have had no issues with Twitter until about 2 weeks ago when Twitter sent a message saying someone hacked into my account from their end. Next thing I was logged out or the app. I have emailed them the proof 5 times now to get an automated message to keep sending the info and or find the email address that the hackers changed it to. Obviously hackers change all your profile details and emails and passwords to lock you out so the automated message of “please use the email associated with the account. We cannot help you any further than this.” It’s not good for the platform as they have an absolute obligation to the platform regarding all our information. If I don’t hear back from them with a resolve this time I will take things further.
2023-01-21
An Honest Review (since Musk takeover)
Twitter allows me to stay in the loop with both sides of politics, enjoy memes and ofc the #twitterfiles
Since Elon took it over and gave free speech a red hot go, and you know what, it’s getting there.
I would’ve given the app a five-star but it’s not perfect yet, I think that’s why Elon bought it.
1. For free speech
2. To improve the software and user experience.
I would love to see; a culture where videos are uploaded to Twitter. Where you can have Twitter creators, like Instagramers, Tiktokers and YouTubers.
Where writers, entrepreneurs, teachers and the average Joe, all have a way to promote their content in a genuine way. There’s definitely space for it and I think is possible. A website with creators to help the eco-system is free advertising because they want people to come to twitter.
I am fine with all the smaller changes currently happening, it’s good to test things out and see if it’s better or worse.
All in all - Twitter is a great app and it has significantly improved since last year - I appreciate everything that the blue bird now stands for and will continue to enjoy using it.
2022-06-16
Widow of Walcha
Amazing detail in this book. I listened to it almost without stop. The cold blooded calculation of this woman is frightening. Emma Partridge carefully and methodically builds the true picture of this woman who pretends she is so sweet and loving but has an ultimately sinister side that destroys a loving, generous human being by taking his life in a carefully thought out evil plan to make it look like suicide. The level of manipulation is incredible. She catches her ex husband Colin in a sticky web of lies and stories and manipulates him
Into looking after her children and her. She seems to know what these men wanted more than anything else and be that for them. They both wanted a partner / wife and family. Her level of ruthlessness is mind blowing. She is one very scary person. Unpredictable and a very good actress. Just a narcissist who believes everyone else is stupid.
A great read …
2022-06-10
TikTok biased against Palestinians
I am very disappointed and saddened that TikTok management continue to use every trick in the book to silence Palestinian voices and their supporters. I am very careful what material I post and what comments I make and avoid even the slightest of scenario where my videos or comments can be in any way construed or be wrongly understood as hateful or in any way being interpreted as misrepresentation of facts or as an invitation to initiate or support any form of violence. Despite that I get blocked, banned and restricted on weekly basis.
What I find most annoying and bemusing is when my post gets removed by TikTok, and then I appeal the decision, my post gets restored with an apology from TikTok, but at the same time I get restricted for an entire week despite the fact that my post that triggered the accusation has been cleared and restored because there was nothing wrong with it to start with.
In other words, I get acquitted but still get punished for a a crime I never committed.
I don’t see how such situation can ever be classified as fair and proper. It is really pathetic and a sad attempt to silence a healthy democratic debate that is beneficial to the community.
My strong conclusion is that the so called “moderators” who work for TikTok are unprofessional mob working hard to disadvantage Palestinians and Palestinian supporters in favour of a racist apartheid state of Israel.
TikTok is a really great social media platform, if it can improve on this clear double standard of ethics, it will gain more respect and gratitude from all sides of the social political spectrum.
Thank you for reading my review, please help our cause by writing more reviews in support of my criticism.
Love you TikTok and TikTokers 🙏🙏♥️♥️
2022-05-01
An Elon Musk Company…
Been with Twitter for ~10 years, or seems like it, and it’s probably the least useful app on my phone. It used to be great for news and local events, but after 2015, as personalities became afraid to talk, and egotistical children were propped up and given tools to abuse conversations, Twitter “Trust and Safety” acting as Ministry of Truth made Twitter a worse experience for the majority.
Sarcasm gets you banned, so the celebrity and popular voices stopped in fear of saying anything that could be misinterpreted as something incriminating, to non-existent people. The fear drove people out, locked their tweets from replies, and archivists started data mining for hate speech against women and minorities. Then the US election shifted the politics. Money became the context for corruption and ideology.
All I can realistically say is, Elon arrived to the garbage fire late, but he still chose to do something for the greater purpose of helping humanity from becoming tyrannical and authoritarian. Wait and see what 2024 is like.
2022-04-29
Layout Change Boned It
The Twitter experience has steadily been going downhill, but the newest layout change has really solidified it’s descent into hell— and with no way to revert or switch, it’s begun to look like a path of no return.
Between insisting on displaying tweets in non-chronological order (you have to switch to this, and it resets for no discernible reason,) randomly suppressing tweets from people you follow (you can go for months without a tweet from somebody actively tweeting appearing on your timeline,) ‘ghost notifications’ and missing crucial features like editing and a proper scroll, twitter ignores it’s userbase more and more with every day that passes.
Between deciding who deserves to be on your timeline, making irreversible changes and switching your home view away from chronological, Twitter seems to think it knows your experience better than you. None of these ‘features’ have ever given me anything but frustration.
I would implore developers to seriously consider the requests users have been making for years. At the very least, allow users to revert certain changes for accessibility’s sake.
Unfortunately, I can’t think of a single instance where Twitter as a platform has listened to the needs of the userbase, instead pumping out needless and usually cumbersome aesthetic changes, like many titans before it.
It truly is as the saying goes:
You either die a MySpace, or live long enough to see yourself become a Tumblr.
2022-04-29
Free speech is back baby!
Now that the DNC doesn’t control you and you let the people not the minority have their say, look at the results. The crazies don’t run this planet the majority does, just like the Berlin Wall, eventually the masses will revolt and the people will take it down and take back the power. Welcome back to the real world Twitter.
The people always prevail, maybe you should read some history books while your stuck in that echo chamber you all locked yourselves in.
And stop complaining, if you disagree with something lay down a valid counter point, no one saying you can’t have your say, the only thing that has changed is now you need to be exposed to opposing opinions, that’s healthy for humanity, you would think all you college educated geniuses would know that.
2022-04-27
Less than half the story here! (Updated)
….Better now since DORKsy left and Elon Musk, a wonderful African-American has taken the platform off a pack of manipulative, lying, deceitful, fake-news leftist activists…….I might think about getting another account now! FREE SPEECH IS BACK!!!…..Thank you Mr Musk!…….(old review) Not a viable source for information anymore. Too many corrupt players (aka Jack Dorsey) stifling free speech on here. There are other viable, more reliable platforms becoming available that do not suppress information or silence the other side of the debate. Twitter is the Wikipedia of gossip. Often wrong, always biased. Delete, delete, delete
2022-04-01
App features
I love Twitter, have been a user for many years however the recent update that has made most app features inaccessible for iPhone 5s/6 users is really disappointing.. I will continue to use Twitter, but like many other users that are upset on the app right now, I would like if Twitter would make the app functional for all its users again, all we want is to be able to read replies and view profiles again, we literally can’t even view are own profiles because of this problem on the app. We’re not asking for a lot, don’t care about any fancy features on the newest version of the app, just want to be able to use Twitter normally again, be able to tweet, read replies, open threads and view accounts/profiles ect..
2021-12-09
I lost my Twitter account
To App Store/Twitter
I was on Twitter when an account that I’ve had for 3 years has only just been locked for being underaged even tho my age fits the requirements to use Twitter and when I tried to contact Twitter Support they didn’t help me! This is totally unfair and so I hope you can understand why I am rating it a 1 star and I hope that they actually recover it after they see this! This is so frustrating because they said that they couldn’t identify that I own the account which in my opinion I think that they didn’t even try to fix it which is absolutely BS, the eventually closed the case that I sent and then I sent another and got “there is a current case on this issue in progress, please make sure the current one ends” even though it already did so I am having a hard time trying to process how they think I do not own the account and why they didn’t feel the need to help them as after all it is a developers job to look after the people that use it, right? All I want is my account back and then I might consider changing my 1 star to a 4 star!
2021-08-31
Amazing but there is a problem
Since yes I have a phone and stuff but it expired and I can’t go out and get one my parents don’t allow that now bc I logged out of Twitter on accident i can’t log back in cuz it needs my phone number yesterday was fine I wrote this problem once in here but here we go again please fix this ik it’s keeping hackers away but I haven’t even put my phone number hackers can easily put their phone number and what’s the point of it now I can’t log back in I won some giveaways (games stuff) and now I can’t join more and can’t claim >:( I’m kinda angry but overall nice app
2021-06-16
If I could I would Rate it -10
The mere fact that Twitter are so up themselves, that they believe they have the right to Censor what people think, say and tweet, demonstrates that they are out of Control, just like Facebook. To arbitrarily suspend or close accounts for no other reason than the Account holder breached Twitters so called Community Standards is Authoritarian and shows them for the fascists that they are. They claim they are all about Freedom of Expression yet demonstrate on a daily basis that they believe in exactly the opposite. Everything is fine as long as you play by their rules, but exercise your right to express an opposing view and it’s game over for you! The Twitter Nazis are a disgrace & the sooner Twitter disappears from the Internet the better.
2021-02-15
Political censorship is rife & one-sided
Twitter is no longer an impartial platform. It has become a tool for propaganda and suppression. I am interested in views from all sides of the political spectrum and like to share interesting posts for discussion from every side... Twitter increasingly censored everything from a certain side, coming to a peak late last year. The abusive violent speak and backlash towards me personally that would accompany any conservative retweets, - never progressive or indeed far-left that I would share, violated their standards regularly yet would never be taken down or flagged by Twitter. Yet in the end my own profile was shut down after sharing posts which spoke impartially about all factual perspectives from both sides to a hot debate late last year. This sort of blatant political censorship is Orwellian, manipulative, brainwashing and infringes on human rights. Sadly, Twitter just simply cannot be trusted anymore, it is best to find an alternative that does not have a political agenda or which seeks to influence or limit your access to information that doesn’t fit in with their personal political views.
2021-01-11
Twitter needs to be a platform for all.
Suspending the account of the US President? So his 88M supporters will probably leave as well. Trump is the most talked about person in the world. He will find a voice. He will probably start his own media organisation and it will be unbelievably successful. Twitter never was representative of the ‘real’ world. Politicians would use what was important on Twitter to develop policies and then fail miserably. Real people aren’t on Twitter. It’s just a safe space for confirmation bias. But, only if you’re on the left. It’s important to know what everyone is thinking. Most conservatives were moving to Parler, but of course that was shut down. If this was happening to left media organisations there would actually be street violence. This is going to fester now and the US could actually implode. There’s probably 100M Americans who feel completely disenfranchised and that’s dangerous.
2021-01-01
A sensational platform
I have been using Twitter for over 6 years now and it is a cross-functional platform with numerous uses. I have connected with so many wonderful and engaging individuals over the years and it’s amazing to see the invaluable work people are doing. I love to say “hi”to my followers when time permits as it is important to give back and see what they are doing ( they’re all extremely bright, creative and dedicated ) and come from all walks of life!. It’s also an invaluable platform for people engaged in animal welfare as well as environmental issues as people tweet in real time. This permits people to cross engage and help one another at great speed. The sharing of world news is also pertinent as it allows countries to quickly dissect all the bits that matter. And there’s quite a few bits on that front!. Twitter has been an incredibly reliable platform for many years that I always look forward to using. I love all the new buttons and features and I look forward to using them most of the time all the time, hopefully to enhance my work. Thankyou Twitter! A sensational platform!
2020-12-19
LISTS!!!
I follow a lot of people and it’s hard to keep up with everything I see on my feed. On Instagram, I would have to create multiple accounts to follow people to have my feeds more organised. On Twitter in the other hand, I don’t need to do that as there are lists. Lists are feeds where you are able to add profiles onto it and all their tweets will appear in that list. It’s like creating a separate feed and choosing what you see in it. It’s the best way to organise what you see on social media and I am in love with it. I have a music feed where I chose to add artists I love in there and I can just go there anytime to see what’s going on in their world, and then I have another list for Films. It’s great and this one feature alone made me give this app 5 stars. Twitter has everything else that all other social media have, but even more features.
2020-12-02
Support is a joke
My account was hacked by someone and twitter suspended my account (acceptable) and I lost access to all my followers and friends. The hacking was resolved but my account has stayed suspended with an inability to get support to reactivate my account. It is SUPER FRUSTRATING
It has been months!! I am unable to create a new account as my mobile number and email is connected and twitter has some smarts when I try to go around this process. Twitter support has not read any of my multiple attempts to resolve this issue so now I am stuck using a sub-par account with no followers or friends. Worst support I have ever experienced in my life to date.
2020-11-18
Suspended account
Twitter censorship is destroying the platform. The reality is the majority of users will move to Parler. Parler is an abhorrent platform. Whilst I understand there must be algorithms and suspensions, Twitter has gone way too far. People from the left use this to get people off the platform. Algorithms are used to suspend accounts for saying Trump won the election. Yet no one is getting suspended for saying Biden won? In fact Twitter uses fact checkers to say Biden has when clearly there is no definitive winner yet. Also algorithms to ban accounts that have Hydroxychloroquine and cure in the same sentence. These tweets don’t need banning. They need fact-checking. The reality is even a vaccine won’t be a cure. Effective yes.. but not a cure. This shows how ridiculous the banning of these tweets are. I currently have a suspended account under review. I have never been rude or broken any Twitter rules. Unfortunately I can’t say they same for my treatment on this platform. I think I had 600 blocked. All for personal abuse. Unlike many on this platform I use my real name and location. Unfortunately that has lead me to be doxxed. The person who realised my LinkedIn details on Twitter faced no ramification. This shows the discrepancies. Hopefully this review is read and reviewed by real people and not just a computer program. Twitter is a good platform. But if decent people like myself get suspended accounts for not breaking rules many loose faith. When they loose faith they change platforms. Personally I feel this is a real challenge for Twitter going forward.
Kind Regards
Damon Pelham
2020-03-11
Is Twitter a good, informative online place?
I have had Twitter for a while but have been reluctant to use it due to hearing that it is not ‘real life’. Dah! I do realise this but am wondering if information delivered is valid.
So, I have started sharing to Twitter information about ‘trends’ I see occurring which are changing our society.
We are being ‘told’ at gunpoint to change how we can speak, think, act. This is pervasive. Did this start online and spread to real life? Are we having an online war about ‘political correctness’? I am not on your side by the way. Thank god, the Right is fighting back!
2019-04-11
Questionable new moderation
While I appreciate Twitter’s attempts at moderating things more closely, it seems that instead of human moderation, Twitter are just running a keyword search over tweets and suspending based on that. My best friend had her whole account deleted for playfully calling her brother a wh**e, and when she raised this as a concern she was immediately shut down and essentially told “too bad, so sad, get off our platform”. Meanwhile, there are people that engage in targeted harassment directly towards me WITH malicious intent, and despite being reported were just warned and they’re still allowed to be active and hateful.
Also on a petty note, I keep selecting “latest tweets” for my timeline, and they keep reverting it back over time. I’ve had to switch to “latest” countless times. Please remember my preferences, and stop trying to push your curate timeline onto me.
2019-02-04
Strange suspicions
Twitter has bugged me several times. My first account was taken down after being hacked by my cousin, and I was locked out of my account, while my name was being dragged under the mud because of his actions. That was unfair, and I told Twitter, I was then rudely told that any further reply I give to them will be considered spam. They didn’t even put my account on private when he was trolling the way he did. Twitter did not care to hear what I had to tell them, and so my account was left the way it was, with people assuming I was the person responsible for all the trolling.
This new account that I have now wants my phone number, but I can’t use it because I used it before on my last account. Now I can’t log myself back into Twitter. It is a very unfair social media platform, not to mention the random suspicions Twitter has when you follow a lot of people. I was just starting my account, so of course I’m going to follow heaps of people. Very overrated platform
2019-01-03
Show the whole feed
The latest tweets and the “home” tweets appear to have been split. If latest tweets is selected, it doesn’t show liked tweets. Perhaps people I follow haven’t liked something in a while but I don’t think that is the case, however, I have taken a small amount of time to check and this is what I have noticed. My latest tweets feed is very empty.
Also, as many others have stated, I don’t care what you think I should see or what you think I’ve missed but the reason twitter has done so well was because of the up to date, unfiltered content. The only reason I joined was because the feed was chronological, now I don’t really see the point to it. It’s basically Facebook lite at this point.
Maybe start with not trying to force people to see what you think is appropriate or important, because most of the time its wrong.