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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!

Edit Aug 2021: Latest update is even worse than before, with the feed jumping randomly every time it refreshes, with even bigger jumps, so hard to find where you were. But tapping the home button twice no longer updates the feed, have to drag it down to do a manual refresh, which is a backwards step. Also hate the new font, although glad that fleets are gone. Original review: Since apple’s upgrade to ios13, twitter has been broken, and still not fixed. The main problem is that my feed jumps up to the top every time it updates itself, so I lose where I was and have to scroll down pages and pages. And although twitter is aware of the problem and claim they’ve released fixes, I’m still having this problem. The other terrible thing is the introduction of ‘topics”. I used to be able to see Australian news, Australian politics, Australian journalism and Australian non-profits when I tapped on search. Now they’ve disappeared, and a whole lot of random, irrelevant topics have appeared. When I log into personalised topics for my twitter account online, there are a multitude of irrelevant topics selected. Who knows how the algorithm is selecting them, but it’s getting them completely wrong. And if I scroll through them all, de-selecting all the irrelevant ones, a week later a whole lot more irrelevant subjects have appeared in their place. I hate it, and just want to go back to seeing Australian news, politics, journalism and not for profits shown.

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.