Twitter - here today, gone today.

Post Reply New Topic

Created a Twitter account today to see what all the fuss was about. Not impressed. Far too much unwanted crap in the feed. Followed a few scientists who I admire and was in the middle of watching a short film posted by one of them when a full screen message appeared saying my Twitter account had been locked for "unusual activity" whatever that means! Twitter demanded to know my phone number before they would unlock the account. As I don't trust them with that information, that is the end of that. Twitter user for all of thirty minutes.

I'll admit I did get some use out of it once. I publicly addressed a restaurant chain in my tweet for emptying out my account with them, I actually got a customer service response that led to a correction.

I don't remember how much information I provided them, but that was a couple years ago. I don't think I'd give my phone number to them.

LOL I think Elon is paranoid about fake bot accounts so they will all get verified now.

Having spoken to a few others, it sounds like Twitter lie when they say they have detected unusual activity on the account, it is just a ploy to force people who signed up using an email address, to give Twitter their phone number. Not going to give it to them, so that's the end of Twitter for me. I wasn't overly impressed anyway, far too much crap in the feed to wade through to find stuff I actually want to read. I wasn't even actively doing anything when the message came up, I was passively watching a short film someone had posted. The claim of "unusual activity" is just bollocks.

Twitter is garbage. Hopefully it'll become less woke and annoying with Musk in charge.

Aside from any politics, it just seems like a waste of time to me

Twitter makes me want to cry with its wokeness.

It was funny recently seeing Mark Cuckersperg close to tears that his beloved Facebook had lost a huge amount of it's share value. After so long of trying to control and dictate what people say and how they think it seems the masses have had enough of his "woke" mind control. An example is the way Facebook monitors private messaging and sees fit to edit personal messages of website URLs that it doesn't like.

Free speech ain't free when it's censored.

Once or twice I toyed with the idea of leaving Facebook (because of how crap it is) and using Twitter instead, but it didn't look any better so I didn't bother. When I heard what the new owner was doing to staff contracts recently, that put the icing on the cake, and I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole now. I suspect both platforms are guilty of trying to look all right-on and community spirited while being nothing of the kind. Facebook recently made its code ridiculously complicated without improving the functionality at all, probably just to make it harder for ad blockers to work properly. Meanwhile features that used to work are now full of bugs or just removed. I expect Twitter will do the same thing if it hasn't already.