X 17+

I don’t know what else you would want from a social media app. If you want entertainment you could find it, if you want knowledge on a business or company you may want to start you could find it, if you just want to kill time you could just go on and scroll. I think it’s my favorite social media app and it is very diverse from young to old people from people with all different intrests and hobbies educating each other on cool or interesting topics also unlike other apps it is not just a brain rot for low attention spans and it does not hurt anyone who wants to go on as long as you don’t look at the wrong stuff. That is also why X is great is it gives you a freedom to post whatever and look at whatever so if you don’t like what you see you could only blame yourself since that is what you have been looking and the algorithm is perfect if I look at something once it gives it to me maybe once more if I look up knicks game score I will get more updates on the score to knicks games and other NBA games.

This is a great example of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. The Twitter app for Mac was working really well. It was a Mac app, not an iPad app. The decision to kill the dedicated Mac app without first making the iPad app fully capable of running well on macOS was stupid. One major problem I have is that when I am typing something in a tweet, the auto complete will try to guess what I am typing and it will often start replacing what I am typing before I can finish a word. This screws up what I was typing. I have to backspace over it and start again and again just to get something typed out. I also don’t like how when I am viewing another X user’s profile, I have to scroll right and left to see things like posts, replies, media, etc. The Mac app had all of these things available in the window without the need to scroll. The Mac app was responsive to the size of the window on the screen. This crappy app is not! It’s total laziness to make us use the iPad app on Mac instead of giving us a dedicated Mac app. X should either bring back the Mac app or start all over and do this right. macOS and iPadOS are essentially the same operating system, but they have different user interfaces. The app should be responsive to the interface of the device it is installed on. It should not force us to use an interface that was not designed for macOS.

Twitter has always been a great app for keeping up with sports, events, and people you’re interested in. It’s technically still that nowadays, but the experience has worsened so much ever since Twitter became X. More specifically, ever since you could pay $8 to boost your account and take over the top spots of replies. Spam is more visible than ever because of this, ads are everywhere whether you pay for premium or not, and there’s huge privacy concerns regarding new implementations like calls.

I still use this app because I can still do what I always wanted: keep up with my interests. I can do the same on Reddit and Meta platforms in some cases, but Twitter serves a purpose in my routine of this. It’s not a free speech platform and there is a bunch of misinformation that is spread here (but that’s nothing new). Elon had some interesting ideas but the approach with everything has been disastrous and disappointing.

I can no longer properly recommend this service to anyone. It’s full of spam, ads, misinformation, and bots. Not to mention that if there’s ever a case of you being harassed or if you see any other form of rule breaking, support will do nothing to assist you even if you pay for premium. That subscription isn’t worth it and this platform is not worth your time.