X 17+

After being suspended years ago for saying things that were true while the ridiculously over the top fascists Jack Dorsey then Parag Agrawal were in charge, I had high hopes for Twitter when Elon Musk bought it and I was reinstated. Then for reasons I will never understand he hired a new ridiculously over the top fascist CEO, Linda Yaccarino. She immediately let it be known that she would not tolerate "hate speech." Hate speech of course is anything anyone says that the person with their finger on the censor button doesn't like. She said she wouldn't suspend people so easily but that she would silence them, citing her policy of "limiting the reach" of anyone exhibiting what she calls "lawful but awful" behavior. And sure enough, here we are again, being silenced for telling the truth about anything. When I was first reinstated I was getting thousands of views and retweets for posts and comments.
Then Linda took over and I'm down to a dozen or so views for anything. It's so blatantly obvious that we have entire hashtag groups and lengthy conversations about it. Comments that have absolutely nothing to do with spam but are from accounts deemed "far right" are now behind a wall called "probable spam." Do I expect it to change? No. Because the same people who financially prop up the likes of CNN and pump money into disastrous Democrat campaigns are buying big money advertising on X. You almost had it, Elon. And you blew it.

After Mr. Musk bought Twitter, things have honestly been feeling like they’ve been going downhill a lot faster than before, especially due to the unnecessary/unwanted changes <-(such as renaming Twitter to “X”, and said letter tends to be used to refer to a different website, which results in making video links on Twitter sound kinda questionable/suspicious) and some pretty bad ideas for changes <-(like how you were considering to completely remove the option to block accounts [even though it’s something that’s required for a social media platform], saying something along the lines of “the option existing/being-a-thing makes no sense and that it serves no actual purpose” when really it does make sense that it-exists/it’s-a-thing and it does serve an actual purpose, anyone with common sense would agree. And those who think that the option existing/being-a-thing makes no sense and say that it serves no actual purpose are likely people with ulterior motives). And now I hear that things from accounts labeled as 18+ are being effected now too. You may wanna rethink that before it’s too late and Twitter ends up like Tumblr, and nobody wants that to happen.

Twitter was already not that great, but it feels as if it has gotten worse over the last few months. All you see now are far-right extremist talking heads, Elon’s sycophants, or the most annoying scam bots for t-shirts, porn, and crypto. Elon says this is the “digital town square”, but honestly he’s just constantly propping up known racists, conspiracy theorists, and maniacs. Now that these creators can be paid based on comment counts, ads etc we’re seeing these creators up the ante in just how insane their posts are getting in order to cause further reach. I went from using this app regularly to maybe checking once a week and have been playing with the idea of just deleting my account in general. Changed the name to X which is just stupid, changed the API policy which makes 3rd party apps totally useless, and anyone who knew what they were doing either quit or was fired. Paying for the app feels pointless as it honestly doesn’t do anything for you other than you have a check mark, which you can hide btw because they realized people were getting laughed at for subscribing to Twitter. The alleged benefits aren’t worth the money. Editing can only be done within a specific window after posting the tweet, and you get 2FA through text. All in all it just isn’t a very engaging or interesting app unless you feel like laughing at goofy people, and even then it gets old quickly.