Twitter

I began my journey on Social Media on MySpace and now I’m on several different platforms. I spend about equal amount of time between Facebook and Twitter. I use FB for local and National issues and politics as well as communicating with friends. Twitter for me is used almost explicitly for expressing my views and opinions about political issues, including local, state and federal matters. Social Media can provide excellent platforms for education, news gathering, entertainment and communication but too often censorship is interfering with free speech which will in time render these useless to the populace. At one time Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. were all ideas that became realities. Now ideas for new ways to communicate are being explored and coming into fruition with the promise of free expression. If Twitter and Facebook want to stay competitive and remain leaders in this industry my humble opinion is to return to the policies that made your platforms great.

So for about 2 months “WHO’S BEEN VISITING YOUR PAGE?” ads ran under my account & I tweeted probably 20x at Twitter at Jack at Twitter Help or whatever it’s called & you guys completely and totally ignored me. I explained these were not my tweets & that my account was compromised & you never responded or acknowledged my messages or the problem. Very disappointed at how during this time you allow Trump to tweet that he won the election w/o outright calling that false.... This may be an unverified claim? LOL. That is highly suspect & seems to also entertain the notion that Trump could be right when he is knee deep in gaslighting and propaganda tweeting is very dangerous. Also, since the stupid fleet function was added, videos won’t play & many pictures do not fully upload & I even updated the app yesterday & it did not help the problem. The feeling is that you don’t care how Twitter or if Twitter works properly for regular ppl & that feeling is based on Twitter being unresponsive to my technical issues & that Twitter doesn’t do all that it can to make sure it functions properly & worst of all, you let ppl compromise the accounts of others & don’t really care & that you happily spread dangerous misinformation of the Nazi variety & it makes me feel bad that I rely so much on the app & the app is completely unresponsive to me whether it be being hacked, videos and pics I can’t access, or as a dangerous propaganda tool. Sincerely, Marc Donato

Twitter has instantly become an instrument for restoring American’s constitutional rights. Freedom of speech. I admit and respect Elon Musk for doing the right thing. I am a Vietnam vet. I volunteered for the war when I was 17 years old. I had to get a parent’s signature because I was too young to volunteer on my own. I love my country. I never thought the day would come when we would lose our constitutional rights. Today we are facing unconstitutional vaccine mandates, vaccines passports, being fed lies constantly by the media and our government officials. We are in serious danger of losing our country to the globalist, Marxist, billionaires who are controlling practically every aspect of our lives. In many ways, we have already lost our country. If it wasn’t for patriots like Elon Musk and President Trump I don’t think we would have much of chance to take our country back. Thank you Mr Musk! May God bless you and your family. God Bless American! Sincerely, Russell Hickenbottom

My name is Monique. Half Mexican/white. Grew up living in a trailer, little parental supervision. Drugs, truancy, irresponsible, etc. I could have easily been a piece of crap adult, patent and citizen but I choose to do better. Joined the Navy at 19, started going to church at about 28. I’m a wife, mom, retired US Navy, conservative, and a Christian. I have traveled the world and our freedom should t be earned. It’s been hi en to us and we have the blessing of living in a country that we can make choices as I did as a young punk. Our choices change minds, empower people, support others. We can be giving, gracious and loving. We also have the freedom to be what ever we want. This social media platform has a choice. Be a free speech platform or not. I joined twitter just a week ago. Please let’s be better. I don’t agree with many views but I do believe that the majority of people are for the same things (freedom, love, peace). We all can do better. Twitter, you can do better.

I've been using Twitter for years and I prefer it over the long rants on Facebook. But some of the controls and features are obscure and difficult to puzzle through. Example: I have 30+ years experience working with all kinds of software. Yet it took me *months* to figure out how to send Direct Messages on Twitter. Basic controls like that should be intuitive.

If not for the random freezes it would be a 5. I have learned to uninstall and reinstall every couple of weeks. The latest version just crashes and quits more often than freezing. I actually like that better. I do wish there was a way to completely turn off DMs. You call them messages. I believe a very significant percentage of users would like to eliminate this very annoying feature. It is used primarily by scammers.

I’ll never have understood Twitter. For some inexplicable reason they have stopped me from following people. And it looks like some people get many many thousands of followers and follows.... it doesn’t have any rhyme nor reason… It must have something to do with algorithms that make them more money because this is all about power and money all of the social media. And I think social media is destroying our country. It’s caused fake news and problems with our Democracy. They let people blatantly lie. Then again Trump gets away with anything… Even corroding our democracy. Twitter doesn’t seem to have the decency or the integrity to do anything about that. So I guess only the rich and powerful get to have followers? I think we need more regulatory control over all of the tech companies in social media and more controls. These companies are eroding our democracy. They allow disinformation and Russian propaganda to flourish.

Enjoying the intellect It’s refreshing to text with so many diverse and knowledgeable people. My only regret is I’m not remembering enough of my French classes and that I did not try Twitter sooner. I prefer it I wonder how I didn’t realize that I didn’t need the other social media. Dare I say that except for my earlier texts I have to state that I find it interesting and not at all unintelligent. Thank You for the opportunity to both rate and review it. I’m honestly quite surprised at the intellect and deeply enjoy the human discourse thoroughly and with that said let us continue to come together to express our concerns and meet the challenges we face daily head on as mature and vastly different as our cultures will hopefully not that far in the near future be more attuned to one another’s lifestyles and concerns for our fellow man and our planet. Thank You

Before the update it was pretty good. No glitches and stuff but ever since, the most annoying thing are the random reloadings. Like if you go to click on a post and leave it. The app brings you right back to the tippy top. Or when your scrolling someone's page and click a picture or tweet to see better. Then you leave/back space out of it, your right back to the tippy top of their page again! Like man I like to slowly read post from the bottom and work my way up. Especially if it's my feed.