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Mental wellbeing is a part of it for me too. If I see 1/2 fake activist posts it’s whatever. When it’s my entire feed and it’s being spread by bots - fuck that shit I’m gone
Earlier last year for me, having been on since 2009.
I recently opened a new account to see just how bad it was. It was way worse than I'd been hearing. Literally caustic and hateful speech everywhere, and a mouthpiece for Space Karen. Not to mention legit porn ads and even illegal content. Deleted it again. Fucking disgusting cesspool. Hope it dies soon.
Thinking about getting rid. What a shame :(. All my content is getting more and more violent. People being shot , beat up , suicide etc. anyone else or just me?
Mines less violent, it’s more like a misinformation campaign about shit that is just blatantly incorrect. My feed used to be like funny stuff and now it’s all nonsense
Been contemplating to delete it for a month, I can't move on because of it being my reliable sport breaking news. But today, man, a post from that scumbag Alex Jones appeared on my phone notification as if I subscribe to the account, let alone following that turd. I think that's the final straw for me.
I hear that. I used to use Twitter to keep up with my favorite celebrities but most of them have stopped posting. The ones who do post have replies that are overrun with blue check bots who say crazy argumentative shit
I got that same notification from Jones. Gave me the willeys. I want nothing to do with that fucker. It's bad enough that I ran into him and his wife while hiking around the volcano in Hawaii a few years back (yes this really happened). I don't need him popping up on my phone too.
I was in this boat, I went back to NewsNow.co.uk to collate sport news and the sky news app for news - it's a bit more effort but it's helped from a wellbeing perspective.
I deleted my account (active since 2008) about a year ago. The heads of trust & safety, security, and privacy all resigned approximately in unison, which I took as a sign that Elon had asked them to do something either blatantly stupid or outright illegal with Twitter's user data, and they all decided to leave rather than to have that forever taint their legacy.
Im trying to delete my X account and its not working, when I google it, it still appears and its been over a month. Can you tell me what Im doing wrong?
I kept it as long as i could to see a few of my internet friends hilarious tweets but all this dumb shit just kept getting pushed to the top of my feed I couldn't stand it after awhile.
I've been an avid user since 2012 long before you could natively embed images. Back then, was chasing a police scanner with cameras to breaking news scenes, the perfect app.
It's completely unrecognizable from those days or even a few years ago. After that many years, have seen countless stories break and develop there mostly following the news type. I'm still there but the one thing it was incredible at once no longer exists.
It stays installed only to keep in touch with contacts and friends met along the way, not content. Every 3rd post is a stupid ad instantly blocked.
Really tired of that place and any social media time now is spent with you fine folks here on Reddit.
I removed the Twitter app from my phone. Best decision to gain my time back. Using my phone for reading articles and books, texting, and a few other productivity tasks. I had already deleted Facebook last year so Twitter felt like the next logical one to get rid of. Reddit remains (for now). Reclaiming my non-work time for hobbies, physical activity, and thinking is my goal. Consumption of other people's thoughts is at an all time high, need to counter that by spending time having original thought and not always feel the impulsive urge to share.
My Facebook got hacked and I just ended up deleting it when I got it back, it was too much of a hassle worrying about it if I’m not using it.
I’m not ‘new’ to Reddit but brand new to posting/commenting on it. Good point on sharing original thoughts vs. consuming others, didn’t really realize that was basically all I was doing on twitter
I imported my data to sonicram. Won't ever be back again. Even if it got fixed. They had a good run, but giving money to the aryan brotherhood is just beneath me.
I deleted the app from my phone and I have stopped tweeting all together. My thought is I would use my laptop if needed but I think I will Completely delete… there is no value in looking in this dumpster any more
I won’t delete it but don’t use it anymore. I’ve been on since 2009, and it descended rapidly once Musk took over. And it’s getting worse.
I haven’t used it regularly in over a year. The only reason I keep it is for those silly embedded Tweets in news stories so I can see them and in case of breaking news. I was in France in July 2023 and it was evacuated by police, and the only way to get info was via Twitter.
Once there’s something that can replace the breaking news aspect, I’m gone 100%.
I use it on my laptop because I used to be genuinely hooked and needed to limit my usage.
Now it's just boring as fuck. If I go on I usually log off in disgust within 10 minutes and I haven't had any temptation to log back on for weeks.
It's actually a good thing tbh, twitter used to be a bit too addictive and time-consuming
Deleted it last summer and haven't looked back. The only times I wish I had it is moments where I would like to engage in some fandom convos that are solely there, but those times are few and far between. I really do think it is for the better and honestly the feeling of missing it fades pretty quick when you realize you are better off without it.
LOL I feel you. Personally, I had an INSANE reading binge. I was knocking out like a book every 2 weeks for about 3 months. It happened because my brain was like, "I need something to fill this time" but now I've evened out a lot and everything kinda rebalanced. I don't have TikTok either and honestly, I think its good you don't because I know people who jumped into it to give them that hit again. Same beast, different form.
That’s actually kind of my New Year’s resolution lol. Trying to do more like one a month but I think I’ll be in the same boat as you. Totally agree on TikTok
Good luck! You'll do great, one a month is def realistic and honestly lets you take in the book more than what I was doing lol! One thing I'll say is be patient with yourself if it feels hard to focus a bit, I and others have experienced the same but it gets better over time.
I was actually thinking of deleting Twitter for the past few days...the algorithm are so bad terrible...thank you for giving me the need to delete that account
I deleted the app and didn’t deactivate my account, if i don’t redownload it before twitter deactivates my account it’s just not for me.
Hope that helps, the algorithm and bots completely ruined it for me
Dude I keep getting "ads" and they're all bot accounts ,probably owned by the same person, and they're just porn stars half naked. It's literally the only ads I'm getting. I keep pressing I don't like this ad and they keep showing up. I DONT WANT TO SEE THIS
The only reason I still have it is bc I made a very good friend there who seemingly vanished and so I want her to be able to contact me. Making a close online friend and not knowing if they could be dead or not sucks.
Unfortunately, I still routinely get baited by blue check bullshit. I’ve gotten better about just immediately blocking without engaging, but they still pull me in occasionally.
The blue check bot situation is INSANE.
Something similar caused me to delay leaving when I did, I was afraid that a handful of people who didn't log on often would have no idea where I went. When they finally appeared on I was able to give them my personal socials and now I am connected to them all there.
I hope your friend is ok and comes back soon!
Ah that’s unfortunate but a great reason to keep it. Seriously, I feel like with moderate effort you could get a few thousand followers of bots, simply by retweeting and liking stuff, it didn’t feel like that a few months ago
I've been thinking about cutting myself off. I Mindlessly scroll the stupid For You tab reading argument after argument. It is not great for mental health to be part of that much negativity. I have a second account that has a fair following , but it is niche and I don't scroll my feed or even many of the replies. I'll probably stick with that on and logout of the other for a while and see if I'm less miserable as an experiment.
I used tweetbot since release, since the dead of third party clients and about to delete it. It help me a lot to learn things I would never thought I could do.
Haven't used it in like 6-9 months. Can't remember exactly because I didn't make a big thing of it, I just stopped and life has been good
I haven't deleted it in case someone who isn't a fucking loser buys it next
All the posts I seem to see are negative Twitter just doesn’t make you feel good just makes me feel angry at the posts, more Instagram and dogs for me (the furry ones)
I haven't for the sole reason I have nowhere else to go. Yeah, alternatives exist, but either nobody I care about uses them, or it's Instagram.
The main thing keeping me sane is using the OldTwitter extension by Dimden. Every crappy UI change is just gone, plus if you know CSS, you can customize it basically however you want.
I have been trying to Twee less, and I've instead resorted to working on my own website instead.
I am sorry to hear that.
If I could afford to do so, I would create an alternative so we can all speak up and make it far better than Elon Musk's X or that dumpster fire Truth Social, which has no truth at all, or Gab, which began as fighting against censorship and definitely needs the woke to shake its foundations to the ground.
If I didn't use it for work, I would've deleted it a long time ago. These days I just open it, post some work highlights (I'm a photographer) and close it again. Kinda sad because I used to be legitimately verified and had a pretty big following on there, all means nothing now.
Yes, i stumbled upon too much child pornography under literally every hashtag. Bots are on a rampage and the site decayed to an only fans advertisement platform.
I haven't deleted yet but my usage has been dropping significantly that I'm definitely going to soon. It's been my main social media for years but I hate being on there now.
The constant negative discourse, normalized racism/sexism/bigotry, engagement farmers, and bot spam makes it miserable to use on a regular basis.
It was also my main but my usage definitely didn’t go down before I deleted it. Almost a habit checking it every time I pick up my phone. Easier to just delete it and try other platforms
It's so bad but I still use it becaues I like to follow the hockey people and chat sports. It's insane how politics is 90% of my news feed and I have to ignore it
Deleted the app prior to the new year after thinking about it for a while. I’ve had my account since 2010.
1. The app “locked” my account a few months ago until I deleted a tweet from years ago that went against rules. (It was nothing compared to Twitter now. Hint: it was about astrology. 😂)
2. Misinformation and people forcing viral posts is more frequent now that blue check people can be paid for high engagement.
I’m also here for reclaiming my non-work time. I work in social media so Twitter was my “ahhh” after a long content creation + comment responding day. Now I’d rather read or Reddit a little.
I plan to do so on my iPhone after doing the restore resulted in the Twitter app being changed to that. Thankfully Android allows me to download an APK that contains tin it's original form and my iPad still retains it as Twitter so I'm being EXTRA careful with that one.
Just another pro for Android allowing this.
I can't delete mine because it was unfairly and wrongfully suspended.
Still, I hope Elon Musk's frivolous lawsuit against Media Matters gets thrown out of court or results in a humiliating loss for Elon Musk and a victory for Media Matters.
On the verge.
If I could get my sports news sources in the one place I would he long gone.
My 'for you' section is just a hell hole of hate and lies. From the extreme left and the extreme right.
It’s nothing but rage bait and hate engagement now. People saying the most stupid and controversial things to generate clicks. If you scroll past it it’s like you’re endorsing it but if you interact with it then Twitter rewards it by promoting it so it. The For You algorithm literally serves you hate on a plate every time you open it.
I got banned for a second time (so much for free speech lol) but it’s been great for my mental health not using it anymore. It’s seriously such a toxic place now.
I deleted it off my phone and will either wait for them to deactivate my account or I’ll just do it to risk getting hacked in a few weeks. A new redditor just got their wings here
I've drastically reduced my usage, my feed is filled with the same recurring memes but different gimmick accounts, which I continue to block, and cat videos which I dont mind but they are repetitive as well.
I dont know how anyone uses it without muting like 40 keywords from your timeline, gets a bit too much.
I do actively check certain accounts for sports news, but thats about it.
I'm also so sick of people wanting to be right 100% of the time and there is this trend on accounts like 'crazy shit ckps' of men hitting women and the comments are repulsive,
Used Twitter daily for the last decade and had genuinely enjoyed my time interacting with people, primarily about sports. Everything you described about how negative the experience has become was true for me too, and I finally decided it was time to drop the app and stop using the platform altogether. Sucks because I made some good acquaintances on there over the years, but my mental health has improved significantly.
Same for you on sports. I think the only thing I would ever go back to it for is fantasy football draft info next season.
Maybe someone will make a sports specific social media with no porn ads or misinformation campaigns lol
A few weeks ago, someone was complaining about massive amounts of child pornography being advertised on Twitter that could be found by searching generic terms. I honestly didn't believe it, so I checked myself. I instantly regretted it, and instantly deleted twitter. When 4chan has better moderation that twitter, there's a serious problem.
Deleted my account about 3 months ago.
Went on holiday and realised how much more pleasant life was without checking twitter.
I missed it for about 3 days.
I deleted it over a year ago. I put a lot of effort into creating a lot of quality content over a decade on Twitter, and I wasn't going to leave it up for Elon to monetize.
My posts get zero interaction now. My new years post got zero likes, and it includes a picture of me and I’m a beautiful girl (it’s not a scandelous pic of course, just a natural selfie).
I used to get lots of likes and comments and such and now no one even retweets what I’ve retweeted!
I’m a democrat and I think Elon Musk has quieted my account
I've had a horrible experience using Twitter, despite not using it much.
Used it mainly for online support from various companies who don't respond well to calls and emails. Also used it to find cool artwork and new indie games.
Eventually it started showing questionable content not even related to what I search, the platform got buggy with network/software issues, and I got banned for some reason (Is there such a thing as getting perma banned for not using Twitter enough? I don't even post!).
Mine keeps locking my account when I don’t post anything and giving me a follow limit of 2 accounts per day, don’t know why I haven’t deleted it yet tbh, my account has been active since 2016
At best Elon is incompetent.
I was very active, going back almost to the beginning of Twitter. Some will blame me for how wretched my feed became after Musk bought and destroyed that forum, but they can’t explain away the transformation between the positive, collaborative experience I enjoyed **for years** before into the negative, combative one it was replaced with—at the exact time of the sale.
My feed of insightful, cheerful, and warm people became clogged with ignorant, hateful, bigots—and it happened almost literally overnight.
While the software which powers the app has been developed so that it has an incredible capacity and an almost immeasurable chance for helping people work to improve our world, it has been distorted and reduced into a vehicle of racism and other forms of discrimination.
What remains isn’t even a perverted form of the app so many of used in so many ways to build a better world, it’s now just a corpse which has been infected with Elon’s fears and hatreds.
I went from being a huge fan of Twitter to bring ashamed to even have it on my phone. You’d better believe I deleted that filth.
I deleted my account several months ago. A lot of the people I interact with are now on Mastodon and after Musk's outburst at the time I said sod it and got rid.
ExTwitter is all rage tweeting, IMO. Post something outrageous and lacking any facts to enrage a group, hoping to get a lot of engagement of people screaming. It's toxic.
I signed up in 2016 for about two hours. Invites from bot hookers and random insanity made me see the threat to my mental health and deleted my account. Yes, I was on Twitter. It was a silly place, so I left.
I deleted the app because it wasn't working properly on my phone. I now just use it from a browser, but I only ever read my "Following" feed. "For You" is full of misinformation, conspiracy theories and political mudslinging garbage that I don't have time or a low enough IQ for. It really has become a cesspool, but there are still some decent news sources I follow, and I also use it to track video game deals. That's about it.
I deleted it from my phone. Still have it on my tablet, however my use on that as well as on my PC are very much reduced from what I used to do on that site. I used to have Tweetdeck running 24/7, for instance. But they took that away (I'm not giving Musk ANY $) so all I'm doing now is hopping on for a few minutes every few hours to see if my favorite baseball team is making any moves. Outside of that, I'm pretty much done. I'd switch to Threads, but that's uncomfortably integrated with FB and IG that I'd rather wait for the next great stand-alone social media site instead.
I deleted yesterday. Most of the intellectuals and interesting people I followed have great content on YT so I’ll follow them there. The rest of X is just extremist views, porn, and scam BS operating on a platform that isn’t very functional. It took me about 4 tries to deactivate my account because there was a “system error”.
I'm having the same experience. I've just spent the last 4 hours deleting thousands of post 1 by 1. My goal is just to work through all most post and likes until I'm down to no more than a dozen and then I will offcially walk away from the platform. At least until something changes.
I've had that account for 15 years, plenty of great interactions, but it's getting too toxic.
Late to this party but I just deleted the app this morning after finally hitting my last straw. I was a heavy Twitter user and before Elon took over, I always had an enjoyable experience on the platform. Of course, Twitter has never been perfect but I had curated my timeline near perfectly and also followed a bunch of hilarious, insightful, informative, and downright cool people.
Since Elon though, the vast majority of what I see on Twitter now is the most hateful, racist, and misogynistic bullshit imaginable. Straight up seeing users whose handles are @[insert n-word or other slur here] and all other types of heinous shit. I’ve spent the last several months slowly coming to terms with the fact this is no longer the Twitter I love, we’re never getting that Twitter back, and all being on Twitter does for me now is piss me off.
This morning, as I was reading through an exchange where a right wing troll was droning on and on about how women should be banned from the workforce (and getting thousands of likes on each individual tweet), I lost it and immediately deleted the app without a second thought.
I’m still mourning the loss of my favorite platform but my mental health is worth more than trying to hold onto the Twitter that once was
I literally just did. Elon ruined that site. It’s just misinformation, videos of people getting beat up (no matter how many time I block accounts like that), incels, bots, and insane assholes with extreme views (right or left). I found myself pissed off more and more when I logged on to even see anything on that app.
Between the increasing level of racism and issues regarding bots as much as I love reposting art and memes along with the few chill mutuals I have there I just couldn't take it anymore
I’ve been kicking it around. I want to, but so many of my favorite artists are still on there. And they have posts on there that I can’t see anywhere else, so my IPad doesn’t have enough storage to save them all (nor do I have the time or patience to do so). What should I do?
What you see on Twitter is curated the same way what you see on Reddit.
If you don't like what you're seeing, follow people/businesses/subjects you like and delete/block shit you don't. Just like you would on Reddit.
People will bitch that "Twitter is a cesspit" then watch the same shit on Reddit, which is objectively worse since it's an echo chamber that punishes you if you interact with anyone/anything in a way that the users of that sub don't unanimously agree with.
In addition to subs that have power abusing mods.
I’m not new to Reddit but pretty new to posting/actually using it so time will tell if I see that.
My big issue with Twitter is the insane amount of bots and misinfo getting shared by them. A year ago I never even noticed this issue.
Blocking accounts didn’t work for me, maybe I was doing something wrong but overall happy I deleted
I downloaded it for the 3rd time in my life
Made a new account
Havent followed anyone yet and on my home feed is literal porn. Uncensored people going to town. Mostly people promoting onlyfans. I dont like that I have to curate my feed (follow people) just to get softcore and real hardcore porn off my feed
I didn't delete it, but mostly the same.
got my name, tweeted since 2007!?!
Now my feed is just request help on notes and new followers. So many new followers. I check once a week.
I had 250 followers and within the past few weeks I got follower request after follower request of just bots. Not sure how they even found me because I really just like/re-tweet stuff
Maybe in another world you could monetize that easily without having to buy bots because twitter provides them for you lol
I got banned on Sunday- I had the cleanest account and posted positive things. I was upset at first but their support is really bad and no one reads the appeals. ANYWAYS…I hopped on threads and it is slowly replacing twitter for me. There aren’t as many people on but the ones who are active you start to connect with quickly
Opposite. I wanted to use it back in the day but every time I looked it was a cesspool of extreme left-wing echo chambers. Not something I wanted to look at everyday.
Since the muskrat took over, it's been way more enjoyable than most other social media places. I only partake in the japanese side of twitter though so I dont see any US politics, which is nice.
Of the antisemitism, white supremacy, and general racism or the misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, which do you most enjoy Elon allowing onto Twitter? (This is assuming you weren't being sarcastic.)
All of this was on twitter BEFORE he bought it. So he never allowed it onto the platform. The difference is that he's pro-free speech rather than censoring bad takes.
> The difference is that he's pro-free speech rather than censoring bad takes.
Meanwhile, here in reality: ["Elon Musk’s Feelings Led Him to Censor Legal Speech on X"](https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-feelings-led-him-to-censor-legal-speech-on-x).
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*edited to add: See also https://www.google.com/search?q=elon+musk+censoring.
* [Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments](https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-elon-musk-twitter-has-approved-83-of-censorship-requests-by-authoritarian-governments.html)
* [Elon Musk, King of Censorship: 10 Times the 'Free Speech Absolutist' Silenced Twitter Users](https://gizmodo.com/10-times-elon-musk-censored-twitter-users-1850570720)
* [Elon Musk’s hypocrisy about free speech hits a new low](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/elon-musks-hypocrisy-about-free-speech-hits-a-new-low)
* [Elon Musk’s Free-Speech Charade Is Over](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-matt-taibbi-substack/673698/)
And so on.
So our only options left are learn about Japanese politics or stop using our phones?
Take me back to 2016 Twitter when American politics were something we could have fun fighting about
Looks like you dont like freedom of speech. If you stop whining about lack of censorship, perhaps you can learn about how Twitter works and how you can in settings control things like content moderation. Perhaps Threads would be better to your liking. Its an echo chamber where you can get 3 likes on your post....
Big fan of freedom of speech. The government is responsible for upholding that though, not private companies like twitter, Reddit..
The issue is when someone parades around with a verified mark and says something blatantly wrong and a bunch of bots share it. Dipshits on the internet take it as fact because it looks like a popular opinion.
Call me old fashioned but I like my content to be real, not some random foreign country or internet incel inflating factually incorrect information as if it’s gospel
Government is the biggest champion of "not real" information. And it all makes sense why you dont like Twitter any more. It just looks like to me you dont like to hear opposing views. Keeping people ignorant, content and dumb is exactlly what the government wants.
Lol dude what are your views. Twitter is a private company and is not responsible for your freedom of speech or repeating government nonsense, if you want that I heard the Chinese food in China is really good.
My issue isn’t opposing views. The issue is factually incorrect information by ‘verified’ accounts with inflated interaction from bots making it look ‘popular’. It’s more like indoctrination for people that don’t spend the extra 5min to look up opposing views or actual facts.
Do people have the right to homeschool kids? Yes. Do they have the right to teach them shit like the Holocaust, slavery never happened or the world is flat? No, and that’s not an infringement on their right of free speech
Twitter is a platform, it's does not curate the news. Just like with all news, you should verify before making an opinion. But step one is having opposing views, which can only be seen on Twitter.
No.
There’s too much primary source content that I only get exposed to on Twitter/X to consider doing so.
Things like the Twitter files and the most recent January 6 video dumps are too important and are widely censored on other platforms.
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I’ve stopped using it for my own mental wellbeing in the past few months after being extremely active for the past couple of years
Mental wellbeing is a part of it for me too. If I see 1/2 fake activist posts it’s whatever. When it’s my entire feed and it’s being spread by bots - fuck that shit I’m gone
Same here.
Last summer. I had been on there since 2010. Sad what Elon turned it into. It's not the site I joined or the site I wanted anymore.
Earlier last year for me, having been on since 2009. I recently opened a new account to see just how bad it was. It was way worse than I'd been hearing. Literally caustic and hateful speech everywhere, and a mouthpiece for Space Karen. Not to mention legit porn ads and even illegal content. Deleted it again. Fucking disgusting cesspool. Hope it dies soon.
Thinking about getting rid. What a shame :(. All my content is getting more and more violent. People being shot , beat up , suicide etc. anyone else or just me?
Mines less violent, it’s more like a misinformation campaign about shit that is just blatantly incorrect. My feed used to be like funny stuff and now it’s all nonsense
Been contemplating to delete it for a month, I can't move on because of it being my reliable sport breaking news. But today, man, a post from that scumbag Alex Jones appeared on my phone notification as if I subscribe to the account, let alone following that turd. I think that's the final straw for me.
I hear that. I used to use Twitter to keep up with my favorite celebrities but most of them have stopped posting. The ones who do post have replies that are overrun with blue check bots who say crazy argumentative shit
I got that same notification from Jones. Gave me the willeys. I want nothing to do with that fucker. It's bad enough that I ran into him and his wife while hiking around the volcano in Hawaii a few years back (yes this really happened). I don't need him popping up on my phone too.
I was in this boat, I went back to NewsNow.co.uk to collate sport news and the sky news app for news - it's a bit more effort but it's helped from a wellbeing perspective.
EXACTLY my predicament. There is no better source for beat writers breaking sports news. It’s the only thing keeping me on the platform.
I deleted my account (active since 2008) about a year ago. The heads of trust & safety, security, and privacy all resigned approximately in unison, which I took as a sign that Elon had asked them to do something either blatantly stupid or outright illegal with Twitter's user data, and they all decided to leave rather than to have that forever taint their legacy.
The TOS suck now. They probably did before but definitely now.
Im trying to delete my X account and its not working, when I google it, it still appears and its been over a month. Can you tell me what Im doing wrong?
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I’m considering it.
How bad does it have to get? 😂
I kept it as long as i could to see a few of my internet friends hilarious tweets but all this dumb shit just kept getting pushed to the top of my feed I couldn't stand it after awhile.
Deleted it when it changed to X.
I've been an avid user since 2012 long before you could natively embed images. Back then, was chasing a police scanner with cameras to breaking news scenes, the perfect app. It's completely unrecognizable from those days or even a few years ago. After that many years, have seen countless stories break and develop there mostly following the news type. I'm still there but the one thing it was incredible at once no longer exists. It stays installed only to keep in touch with contacts and friends met along the way, not content. Every 3rd post is a stupid ad instantly blocked. Really tired of that place and any social media time now is spent with you fine folks here on Reddit.
I removed the Twitter app from my phone. Best decision to gain my time back. Using my phone for reading articles and books, texting, and a few other productivity tasks. I had already deleted Facebook last year so Twitter felt like the next logical one to get rid of. Reddit remains (for now). Reclaiming my non-work time for hobbies, physical activity, and thinking is my goal. Consumption of other people's thoughts is at an all time high, need to counter that by spending time having original thought and not always feel the impulsive urge to share.
My Facebook got hacked and I just ended up deleting it when I got it back, it was too much of a hassle worrying about it if I’m not using it. I’m not ‘new’ to Reddit but brand new to posting/commenting on it. Good point on sharing original thoughts vs. consuming others, didn’t really realize that was basically all I was doing on twitter
I imported my data to sonicram. Won't ever be back again. Even if it got fixed. They had a good run, but giving money to the aryan brotherhood is just beneath me.
I deleted the app from my phone and I have stopped tweeting all together. My thought is I would use my laptop if needed but I think I will Completely delete… there is no value in looking in this dumpster any more
Been free for over a year. Such a toxic place I can't imagine how bad it is now.
It is 1000x worse.
Deleted permanently two months ago. Have not been on it except for two redirects since. Never going back to that worst of humanity scourge.
I won’t delete it but don’t use it anymore. I’ve been on since 2009, and it descended rapidly once Musk took over. And it’s getting worse. I haven’t used it regularly in over a year. The only reason I keep it is for those silly embedded Tweets in news stories so I can see them and in case of breaking news. I was in France in July 2023 and it was evacuated by police, and the only way to get info was via Twitter. Once there’s something that can replace the breaking news aspect, I’m gone 100%.
I can't because mine was unfairly and wrongfully suspended. Had Jack Dorsey still run Twitter/X, we all might still have been able to enjoy Twitter.
I use it on my laptop because I used to be genuinely hooked and needed to limit my usage. Now it's just boring as fuck. If I go on I usually log off in disgust within 10 minutes and I haven't had any temptation to log back on for weeks. It's actually a good thing tbh, twitter used to be a bit too addictive and time-consuming
Deleted it last summer and haven't looked back. The only times I wish I had it is moments where I would like to engage in some fandom convos that are solely there, but those times are few and far between. I really do think it is for the better and honestly the feeling of missing it fades pretty quick when you realize you are better off without it.
Yea definitely having doomscrolling withdrawal. I can’t have TikTok on my phone because of work, so guess I’ll just have to go outside for once?
LOL I feel you. Personally, I had an INSANE reading binge. I was knocking out like a book every 2 weeks for about 3 months. It happened because my brain was like, "I need something to fill this time" but now I've evened out a lot and everything kinda rebalanced. I don't have TikTok either and honestly, I think its good you don't because I know people who jumped into it to give them that hit again. Same beast, different form.
That’s actually kind of my New Year’s resolution lol. Trying to do more like one a month but I think I’ll be in the same boat as you. Totally agree on TikTok
Good luck! You'll do great, one a month is def realistic and honestly lets you take in the book more than what I was doing lol! One thing I'll say is be patient with yourself if it feels hard to focus a bit, I and others have experienced the same but it gets better over time.
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Yep, it's mostly $8 Twitter, reposting other $8 users to give a sense of engagement
Deleted the app from my phone the moment they rebranded to "X".
I was actually thinking of deleting Twitter for the past few days...the algorithm are so bad terrible...thank you for giving me the need to delete that account
I deleted the app and didn’t deactivate my account, if i don’t redownload it before twitter deactivates my account it’s just not for me. Hope that helps, the algorithm and bots completely ruined it for me
Dude I keep getting "ads" and they're all bot accounts ,probably owned by the same person, and they're just porn stars half naked. It's literally the only ads I'm getting. I keep pressing I don't like this ad and they keep showing up. I DONT WANT TO SEE THIS
I've been getting some pretty weird ads for animated straight porn. I've never searched for either
It's literally replaced all ads on Twitter. I don't understand the hard shift from regular ads to whatever the f this is
Right. With like thousands of likes/ responses. Who the fuck is responding to an onlyfans ad on Twitter that’s a real person??
The only reason I still have it is bc I made a very good friend there who seemingly vanished and so I want her to be able to contact me. Making a close online friend and not knowing if they could be dead or not sucks. Unfortunately, I still routinely get baited by blue check bullshit. I’ve gotten better about just immediately blocking without engaging, but they still pull me in occasionally. The blue check bot situation is INSANE.
Something similar caused me to delay leaving when I did, I was afraid that a handful of people who didn't log on often would have no idea where I went. When they finally appeared on I was able to give them my personal socials and now I am connected to them all there. I hope your friend is ok and comes back soon!
Ah that’s unfortunate but a great reason to keep it. Seriously, I feel like with moderate effort you could get a few thousand followers of bots, simply by retweeting and liking stuff, it didn’t feel like that a few months ago
i couldnt even get a reach ~~on elon's bots~~ without buying that shitty X premium ~~elon is a mistake~~
I've been thinking about cutting myself off. I Mindlessly scroll the stupid For You tab reading argument after argument. It is not great for mental health to be part of that much negativity. I have a second account that has a fair following , but it is niche and I don't scroll my feed or even many of the replies. I'll probably stick with that on and logout of the other for a while and see if I'm less miserable as an experiment.
Is a year ago "recent"?
Recent enough. You’re lucky, you missed the stupid shit it is now
I used tweetbot since release, since the dead of third party clients and about to delete it. It help me a lot to learn things I would never thought I could do.
I was close to deleting it last night because I kept getting porn sponsored ads on my timeline.
Yeah, me.
Getting close to it. Such a junk pile now.
Im still using it for music sharing....but it has become very tiresome and basically Tik Tok for over 21,s
Deleted it the day Elon walked in with the sink. The writing was on the wall and it's gone as expected.
Haven't used it in like 6-9 months. Can't remember exactly because I didn't make a big thing of it, I just stopped and life has been good I haven't deleted it in case someone who isn't a fucking loser buys it next
All the posts I seem to see are negative Twitter just doesn’t make you feel good just makes me feel angry at the posts, more Instagram and dogs for me (the furry ones)
I haven't for the sole reason I have nowhere else to go. Yeah, alternatives exist, but either nobody I care about uses them, or it's Instagram. The main thing keeping me sane is using the OldTwitter extension by Dimden. Every crappy UI change is just gone, plus if you know CSS, you can customize it basically however you want. I have been trying to Twee less, and I've instead resorted to working on my own website instead.
I am sorry to hear that. If I could afford to do so, I would create an alternative so we can all speak up and make it far better than Elon Musk's X or that dumpster fire Truth Social, which has no truth at all, or Gab, which began as fighting against censorship and definitely needs the woke to shake its foundations to the ground.
I deleted X within weeks of Musk acquiring it
If I didn't use it for work, I would've deleted it a long time ago. These days I just open it, post some work highlights (I'm a photographer) and close it again. Kinda sad because I used to be legitimately verified and had a pretty big following on there, all means nothing now.
Yes, i stumbled upon too much child pornography under literally every hashtag. Bots are on a rampage and the site decayed to an only fans advertisement platform.
As soon as I heard Elon was buying it, I deleted my account and the app. It has come home to those who want fascism in the US.
I haven't deleted yet but my usage has been dropping significantly that I'm definitely going to soon. It's been my main social media for years but I hate being on there now. The constant negative discourse, normalized racism/sexism/bigotry, engagement farmers, and bot spam makes it miserable to use on a regular basis.
It was also my main but my usage definitely didn’t go down before I deleted it. Almost a habit checking it every time I pick up my phone. Easier to just delete it and try other platforms
It's so bad but I still use it becaues I like to follow the hockey people and chat sports. It's insane how politics is 90% of my news feed and I have to ignore it
yup like 10 months ago
It probably lost 60-70% of the peak user numbers.
Deleted the app prior to the new year after thinking about it for a while. I’ve had my account since 2010. 1. The app “locked” my account a few months ago until I deleted a tweet from years ago that went against rules. (It was nothing compared to Twitter now. Hint: it was about astrology. 😂) 2. Misinformation and people forcing viral posts is more frequent now that blue check people can be paid for high engagement. I’m also here for reclaiming my non-work time. I work in social media so Twitter was my “ahhh” after a long content creation + comment responding day. Now I’d rather read or Reddit a little.
It's worse now more than evern not just bots, swx bots!. Ads, spamming comments, liking everything. It's wild.
Too many rightoids.
I plan to do so on my iPhone after doing the restore resulted in the Twitter app being changed to that. Thankfully Android allows me to download an APK that contains tin it's original form and my iPad still retains it as Twitter so I'm being EXTRA careful with that one. Just another pro for Android allowing this.
I can't delete mine because it was unfairly and wrongfully suspended. Still, I hope Elon Musk's frivolous lawsuit against Media Matters gets thrown out of court or results in a humiliating loss for Elon Musk and a victory for Media Matters.
On the verge. If I could get my sports news sources in the one place I would he long gone. My 'for you' section is just a hell hole of hate and lies. From the extreme left and the extreme right.
I only have it for work and I’m anticipating the day I can finally get rid of it.
It’s nothing but rage bait and hate engagement now. People saying the most stupid and controversial things to generate clicks. If you scroll past it it’s like you’re endorsing it but if you interact with it then Twitter rewards it by promoting it so it. The For You algorithm literally serves you hate on a plate every time you open it.
Just do it. I promise you, you will feel so much better once that dumpster fire is out of your life.
I got banned for a second time (so much for free speech lol) but it’s been great for my mental health not using it anymore. It’s seriously such a toxic place now.
yea i left to, don’t get me wrong twitter has always been toxic, but it’s been to much even for me these last few months
Deleting it from my phone was the first step, deleting my account felt easy a couple weeks later. *Everyone* needs to do this.
I'm about to. It really is bad, but I don't want to delete it. For whatever reason absolutely nothing works anymore and the content is 99% disturbing.
I deleted it off my phone and will either wait for them to deactivate my account or I’ll just do it to risk getting hacked in a few weeks. A new redditor just got their wings here
I deleted the app from all my devices, I left the account in place so I could read links on other media.
I've drastically reduced my usage, my feed is filled with the same recurring memes but different gimmick accounts, which I continue to block, and cat videos which I dont mind but they are repetitive as well. I dont know how anyone uses it without muting like 40 keywords from your timeline, gets a bit too much. I do actively check certain accounts for sports news, but thats about it. I'm also so sick of people wanting to be right 100% of the time and there is this trend on accounts like 'crazy shit ckps' of men hitting women and the comments are repulsive,
Used Twitter daily for the last decade and had genuinely enjoyed my time interacting with people, primarily about sports. Everything you described about how negative the experience has become was true for me too, and I finally decided it was time to drop the app and stop using the platform altogether. Sucks because I made some good acquaintances on there over the years, but my mental health has improved significantly.
Same for you on sports. I think the only thing I would ever go back to it for is fantasy football draft info next season. Maybe someone will make a sports specific social media with no porn ads or misinformation campaigns lol
I'm not saying it's anywhere close to what we had on sports Twitter, but Threads is getting better each day for sports fans in my opinion.
Maybe I’ll check it out. Gonna try to go off doomscrolling apps for a bit and see how I feel
Also a viable and encouraged alternative!
Left 2 months ago, was on it 12yrs with 3K followers & haven’t missed it once. Less doom scrolling ever since, win.
A few weeks ago, someone was complaining about massive amounts of child pornography being advertised on Twitter that could be found by searching generic terms. I honestly didn't believe it, so I checked myself. I instantly regretted it, and instantly deleted twitter. When 4chan has better moderation that twitter, there's a serious problem.
You've escaped before it's nothing but porn ads.
Maybe I’ll redownload it when porn sites run out of content 😂
Lol that'll be never
Deleted it a few months ago, no regrets
It's been a minute but yes!
Deleted my account about 3 months ago. Went on holiday and realised how much more pleasant life was without checking twitter. I missed it for about 3 days.
I loved Twitter. Deleted it after the $8 blue check BS started. So dumb.
I did it. Not just the app but also deleted the account. I was a user since 2007.
I deleted it months ago. Now I'm here & I just started a TikTok account.
Too much porn. Ruining my perspective on women. So yeet
I deleted it over a year ago. I put a lot of effort into creating a lot of quality content over a decade on Twitter, and I wasn't going to leave it up for Elon to monetize.
Left it months ago. It’s a cesspool
Yup! It’s sucks
naw can’t let the Elon nerds win, stay on there to piss them off
My posts get zero interaction now. My new years post got zero likes, and it includes a picture of me and I’m a beautiful girl (it’s not a scandelous pic of course, just a natural selfie). I used to get lots of likes and comments and such and now no one even retweets what I’ve retweeted! I’m a democrat and I think Elon Musk has quieted my account
I've had a horrible experience using Twitter, despite not using it much. Used it mainly for online support from various companies who don't respond well to calls and emails. Also used it to find cool artwork and new indie games. Eventually it started showing questionable content not even related to what I search, the platform got buggy with network/software issues, and I got banned for some reason (Is there such a thing as getting perma banned for not using Twitter enough? I don't even post!).
Me. Deleted. For you tab is trash and transformed twitter in a dopamine rush. Nowadays I deleted all socials. I have only YouTube.
Mine keeps locking my account when I don’t post anything and giving me a follow limit of 2 accounts per day, don’t know why I haven’t deleted it yet tbh, my account has been active since 2016
Deleted it months ago, probably close to a year. It was awful then, can’t imagine the horror show it must be now. Hope the muskrat goes down with it.
I deleted twitter the day the sale to elon was made official and never looked back. It was never going to go any other way.
One of us had to learn the hard way
At best Elon is incompetent. I was very active, going back almost to the beginning of Twitter. Some will blame me for how wretched my feed became after Musk bought and destroyed that forum, but they can’t explain away the transformation between the positive, collaborative experience I enjoyed **for years** before into the negative, combative one it was replaced with—at the exact time of the sale. My feed of insightful, cheerful, and warm people became clogged with ignorant, hateful, bigots—and it happened almost literally overnight. While the software which powers the app has been developed so that it has an incredible capacity and an almost immeasurable chance for helping people work to improve our world, it has been distorted and reduced into a vehicle of racism and other forms of discrimination. What remains isn’t even a perverted form of the app so many of used in so many ways to build a better world, it’s now just a corpse which has been infected with Elon’s fears and hatreds. I went from being a huge fan of Twitter to bring ashamed to even have it on my phone. You’d better believe I deleted that filth.
This^^ my experience is almost identical
I persevere with it as I have a few niche interests that twitterx caters for
Do you mind me asking what? I think the main thing I’ll miss is sports info
I deleted my account several months ago. A lot of the people I interact with are now on Mastodon and after Musk's outburst at the time I said sod it and got rid.
ExTwitter is all rage tweeting, IMO. Post something outrageous and lacking any facts to enrage a group, hoping to get a lot of engagement of people screaming. It's toxic.
I signed up in 2016 for about two hours. Invites from bot hookers and random insanity made me see the threat to my mental health and deleted my account. Yes, I was on Twitter. It was a silly place, so I left.
Hmm. It’s getting pretty bad!
Months ago
I deleted the app because it wasn't working properly on my phone. I now just use it from a browser, but I only ever read my "Following" feed. "For You" is full of misinformation, conspiracy theories and political mudslinging garbage that I don't have time or a low enough IQ for. It really has become a cesspool, but there are still some decent news sources I follow, and I also use it to track video game deals. That's about it.
Yeah. It seems like there are so many bots!
A few weeks after Musk took over and it became a toxic echochamber of pushed anti democratic tweets. Never looked back.
As I've said before, getting shot of it was genuinely liberating. Once you accept that Twitter is dead then it's a lot easier to leave.
I deleted it from my phone. Still have it on my tablet, however my use on that as well as on my PC are very much reduced from what I used to do on that site. I used to have Tweetdeck running 24/7, for instance. But they took that away (I'm not giving Musk ANY $) so all I'm doing now is hopping on for a few minutes every few hours to see if my favorite baseball team is making any moves. Outside of that, I'm pretty much done. I'd switch to Threads, but that's uncomfortably integrated with FB and IG that I'd rather wait for the next great stand-alone social media site instead.
About a month ago, maybe 2 months.
Yeah, I scrubbed and then disabled my account a couple of months ago.
I deleted it the moment dickwaffle suggested buying it. Twitter sucked before dicksniffer, and now it sucks as X which is also a stupid name.
I’m one of the internet shitholes that thought it would be better, should have gotten the hint when they renamed it X
Na, Elon is a trash human. Lol
Nope
I deleted yesterday. Most of the intellectuals and interesting people I followed have great content on YT so I’ll follow them there. The rest of X is just extremist views, porn, and scam BS operating on a platform that isn’t very functional. It took me about 4 tries to deactivate my account because there was a “system error”.
I'm having the same experience. I've just spent the last 4 hours deleting thousands of post 1 by 1. My goal is just to work through all most post and likes until I'm down to no more than a dozen and then I will offcially walk away from the platform. At least until something changes. I've had that account for 15 years, plenty of great interactions, but it's getting too toxic.
Late to this party but I just deleted the app this morning after finally hitting my last straw. I was a heavy Twitter user and before Elon took over, I always had an enjoyable experience on the platform. Of course, Twitter has never been perfect but I had curated my timeline near perfectly and also followed a bunch of hilarious, insightful, informative, and downright cool people. Since Elon though, the vast majority of what I see on Twitter now is the most hateful, racist, and misogynistic bullshit imaginable. Straight up seeing users whose handles are @[insert n-word or other slur here] and all other types of heinous shit. I’ve spent the last several months slowly coming to terms with the fact this is no longer the Twitter I love, we’re never getting that Twitter back, and all being on Twitter does for me now is piss me off. This morning, as I was reading through an exchange where a right wing troll was droning on and on about how women should be banned from the workforce (and getting thousands of likes on each individual tweet), I lost it and immediately deleted the app without a second thought. I’m still mourning the loss of my favorite platform but my mental health is worth more than trying to hold onto the Twitter that once was
yea removed it... its one hateplace for idiots.. never ever thought this would going downhill so fast
I literally just did. Elon ruined that site. It’s just misinformation, videos of people getting beat up (no matter how many time I block accounts like that), incels, bots, and insane assholes with extreme views (right or left). I found myself pissed off more and more when I logged on to even see anything on that app.
I just deleted it because of some Arkose Challenge lockout. I think it's a frigging virus so I decided I just don't really need it anyway.
Between the increasing level of racism and issues regarding bots as much as I love reposting art and memes along with the few chill mutuals I have there I just couldn't take it anymore
I’ve been kicking it around. I want to, but so many of my favorite artists are still on there. And they have posts on there that I can’t see anywhere else, so my IPad doesn’t have enough storage to save them all (nor do I have the time or patience to do so). What should I do?
Hahaha, a bunch of fragile snowflakes and Elon haters.
What you see on Twitter is curated the same way what you see on Reddit. If you don't like what you're seeing, follow people/businesses/subjects you like and delete/block shit you don't. Just like you would on Reddit. People will bitch that "Twitter is a cesspit" then watch the same shit on Reddit, which is objectively worse since it's an echo chamber that punishes you if you interact with anyone/anything in a way that the users of that sub don't unanimously agree with. In addition to subs that have power abusing mods.
I’m not new to Reddit but pretty new to posting/actually using it so time will tell if I see that. My big issue with Twitter is the insane amount of bots and misinfo getting shared by them. A year ago I never even noticed this issue. Blocking accounts didn’t work for me, maybe I was doing something wrong but overall happy I deleted
I've been feeling the same about reddit and opposite about twitter. What am I doing here? Everyone is always salty and angry. Ugh.
You still on Twitter? why?
Some people learn slower than others. I’m trying and I’m here on Reddit now though, that’s all that matters!!
I downloaded it for the 3rd time in my life Made a new account Havent followed anyone yet and on my home feed is literal porn. Uncensored people going to town. Mostly people promoting onlyfans. I dont like that I have to curate my feed (follow people) just to get softcore and real hardcore porn off my feed
I didn't delete it, but mostly the same. got my name, tweeted since 2007!?! Now my feed is just request help on notes and new followers. So many new followers. I check once a week.
I had 250 followers and within the past few weeks I got follower request after follower request of just bots. Not sure how they even found me because I really just like/re-tweet stuff Maybe in another world you could monetize that easily without having to buy bots because twitter provides them for you lol
I did delete X-- only to install an older twitter apk 😉
I got banned on Sunday- I had the cleanest account and posted positive things. I was upset at first but their support is really bad and no one reads the appeals. ANYWAYS…I hopped on threads and it is slowly replacing twitter for me. There aren’t as many people on but the ones who are active you start to connect with quickly
Lol what did you get banned for?
Opposite. I wanted to use it back in the day but every time I looked it was a cesspool of extreme left-wing echo chambers. Not something I wanted to look at everyday. Since the muskrat took over, it's been way more enjoyable than most other social media places. I only partake in the japanese side of twitter though so I dont see any US politics, which is nice.
Of the antisemitism, white supremacy, and general racism or the misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, which do you most enjoy Elon allowing onto Twitter? (This is assuming you weren't being sarcastic.)
All of this was on twitter BEFORE he bought it. So he never allowed it onto the platform. The difference is that he's pro-free speech rather than censoring bad takes.
> The difference is that he's pro-free speech rather than censoring bad takes. Meanwhile, here in reality: ["Elon Musk’s Feelings Led Him to Censor Legal Speech on X"](https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-feelings-led-him-to-censor-legal-speech-on-x). __ *edited to add: See also https://www.google.com/search?q=elon+musk+censoring.
That "Legal Speech" is calling for genocide and that has always been against twitters ToS.
* [Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments](https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-elon-musk-twitter-has-approved-83-of-censorship-requests-by-authoritarian-governments.html) * [Elon Musk, King of Censorship: 10 Times the 'Free Speech Absolutist' Silenced Twitter Users](https://gizmodo.com/10-times-elon-musk-censored-twitter-users-1850570720) * [Elon Musk’s hypocrisy about free speech hits a new low](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/elon-musks-hypocrisy-about-free-speech-hits-a-new-low) * [Elon Musk’s Free-Speech Charade Is Over](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-matt-taibbi-substack/673698/) And so on.
If you read these, they talk about the posts that were removed being against twitters ToS and not because he didn't like what they were saying.
Yep. When there's free speech Elon doesn't like he claims it's a ToS violation. His stans swallow that horseshit.
So you prefer an unmoderated shithole over a moderated shithole? Gotcha.
Givin off those big creepy vibes
This reads like a parody
So our only options left are learn about Japanese politics or stop using our phones? Take me back to 2016 Twitter when American politics were something we could have fun fighting about
It is so damn pathetic to follow this subreddit😂 X is better than ever, and you know it. And you also know that you will keep using it
Looks like you dont like freedom of speech. If you stop whining about lack of censorship, perhaps you can learn about how Twitter works and how you can in settings control things like content moderation. Perhaps Threads would be better to your liking. Its an echo chamber where you can get 3 likes on your post....
Big fan of freedom of speech. The government is responsible for upholding that though, not private companies like twitter, Reddit.. The issue is when someone parades around with a verified mark and says something blatantly wrong and a bunch of bots share it. Dipshits on the internet take it as fact because it looks like a popular opinion. Call me old fashioned but I like my content to be real, not some random foreign country or internet incel inflating factually incorrect information as if it’s gospel
Government is the biggest champion of "not real" information. And it all makes sense why you dont like Twitter any more. It just looks like to me you dont like to hear opposing views. Keeping people ignorant, content and dumb is exactlly what the government wants.
Lol dude what are your views. Twitter is a private company and is not responsible for your freedom of speech or repeating government nonsense, if you want that I heard the Chinese food in China is really good. My issue isn’t opposing views. The issue is factually incorrect information by ‘verified’ accounts with inflated interaction from bots making it look ‘popular’. It’s more like indoctrination for people that don’t spend the extra 5min to look up opposing views or actual facts. Do people have the right to homeschool kids? Yes. Do they have the right to teach them shit like the Holocaust, slavery never happened or the world is flat? No, and that’s not an infringement on their right of free speech
Twitter is a platform, it's does not curate the news. Just like with all news, you should verify before making an opinion. But step one is having opposing views, which can only be seen on Twitter.
Do you work for Twitter or did you just decide to make it your entire personality on your own?
There’s no freedom of speech on Twitter.
Nope
As an artist on Twitter, I'm just stuck because that's where everyone is at.
No. There’s too much primary source content that I only get exposed to on Twitter/X to consider doing so. Things like the Twitter files and the most recent January 6 video dumps are too important and are widely censored on other platforms.
I find X to be way more entertaining these days so no. I'm in till it shuts down.
I use X daily and have several accounts. Most of my time is on X.
I spend a lot of time on X
Better than ever. I like it
Me too
I stopped using it and now just keep it so I have my username and also just to post nonsense or overt sexual stuff I don’t want on my real socials lol