X 17+

As a user who has spent much time off of the app for the past few years, but has recently been spending much time on it again, the biggest change I’ve noticed is how many large accounts have a “SUBSCRIBE” feature, as well as many posts discussing the unfair payout scheme. As a relatively small account, I have no understanding how it all works, but the entire system is a turn off. Most large accounts only interact with the accounts that subscribe to them. Until I had finally signed up for Premium, I saw far too many “influencers” make posts urging people to go with Premium… even the platform’s largest account and owner… in a somewhat bullying way… to make regular users feel “less than”. The main reason I finally signed up was for the Grok AI feature. And right after I did, Elon announced it would soon be available on ALL accounts. In today’s economy I’ve been truly shocked by all the emphasis on money with the app and I feel it’s unfortunate you need to have Premium to get more engagement on your posts. I preferred the days when it was merely about the content of each user’s posts. So yeah… while I very much appreciate the free speech on X (I mean, we are AMERICA after all!)… it’s become all about the money. Cha-Ching!

I always really liked Twitter but it was annoying when it started turning ugly with so much angry trolling years ago. Then they implemented a bunch of controls to help make it sane and calm again. Then it became X and now it’s a big giant loud and rude contest again. And that should be fine - I get that it’s a public forum and In don’t really care who owns the platform - but the good thing about it has always been my ability choose my follows and fine tune my feed. But no - logging in defaults to a generic feed that has all kinds of crummy loudmouth negative opinions from people formerly banned from the platform right up top. You have to hit one more button to get to your follows feed. So annoying. And it would be one thing if they were just using an analytic algorithm to lead me to this I might enjoy but they’re not. They’re putting things they know I’ll have to drive reactions which is just rude. I even get alerts whenever the company’s current rude owner posts another dumb opinion - one more thing I didn’t ask for and don’t want. And they just made likes private. Like used to be a good tool to find more accounts to follow organically. Now it’s some creepy fake privacy meant to separate people even more and cut non corporate funding avenues for support. I just plain don’t enjoy this app experience. Keep the corny new name if you insist but change the general interaction functionality back to like 2012 settings and I’ll love it again.

i just don’t understand what the point of this app is. all i see when i open the app is genuinely terrible acts and violence. i’ve seen people getting straight up murdered on this app, with no previous warnings or even censoring. it’s always extremely graphic as well. shootings, stabbings, you name it, it’s on twitter. i also saw a drunk woman getting sexually assaulted, also no warnings or censoring. and then of course there’s street fights, school fights, real domestic violence situations,robberies, kidnappings, then the trumpie brainrot/misinformation ab the left/right winged propaganda etc. ofc it’s extremely racist, homophobic, xenophobic, any type of hate towards a group is there too. oh and don’t even get me started on the porn that’s literally everywhere, including the comment sections of unrelated videos. i’m sure there’s CP on there too although i thankfully haven’t come across that. i feel SO sorry for any kids who somehow stumbled across these types of vids like this on x, im sure a lot did bc thats literally all that’s on the app. yes ik kids shouldn’t be on social media especially x but of course kids are curious and don’t know better. its like elon what are you doing? do you enjoy watching these types of videos because you clearly don’t care, it’s all your app consists of. you’re actually sick in the head. i feel INCREDIBLY sorry for your kids especially the one you named after falling asleep on your keyboard.