Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is a social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" (officially "posts") and like other users' content. The platform also includes direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok), job search, and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Taken from Wikipedia.
Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
Note: Despite Musk's adamancy about the new name, I will still refer to it as Twitter.
Idk what to put here.
Both Anonaddy and SimpleLogin have been reported to work.
Many have reported being locked out of their accounts when signing up without giving a phone number. Kinda douchey if you ask me.
"Where you violate our Rules and your account is suspended, we may keep the identifiers you used to create the account (i.e., email address or phone number) indefinitely to prevent repeat policy offenders from creating new accounts". I mean it kinda makes sense but that's still data retention after account deletion.
No wonder people get doxxed there.
Yeah.
"When you use X, we collect some information about your approximate location to provide the service you expect, including showing you relevant ads. You can also choose to share your current precise location or places where you’ve previously used X by enabling these settings in your account.". Yikes.
I mean it is a social media platform.
You can find a full list of them here.
No I will not pay $8 for a feature that used to be free.
I hate surveillance capitalism.
"We use the information we collect to measure and analyze the effectiveness of our products and services and to better understand how you use them in order to make them better". Doesn't look like you can opt out either.
They used to have an onion address but it just suddenly went dark.
As stated before, people get locked out of their accounts unless they add a phone number. This is especially true for people who use VPN/Tor to connect to Twitter.
Unless you break their ToS, your data will usually be gone after you delete your account (or like, 18 months).
The official Twitter app may be closed source, but a lot of its components are on their Github page.
One example I can think of is Shitter (yes that's it's actual name).
I'm surprised this wasn't done sooner considering Musk's fascination about the tool. Also since November 2024, you can no longer opt out of it. I have prepared some alternatives below in case this bothers you (and it should).
To clarify Twitter is in the online advertising business. It's how they make most of their revenue.
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Analysis: So much for thinking new leadership would actually make the platform better. Elon went from real life Tony Stark to scummy billionaire real quick, and his purchase of Twitter just made his grave deeper. Privacy in Twitter since the Musk acquisition has been both ups and downs, but mostly downs. On one hand, Twitter finally implements E2EE messaging (albeit a bit faulty). On the other hand, they shut down their Tor Service, phone numbers are still a soft requirement, all the proposed change Elon said he'd do... well, he didn't do. The 8$ blue check service has not done anything at all to preserve the privacy of people who pay for it, and it just caused pandemonium when it was first implemented. Furthermore, Twitter has complied more with government censorship since Musk took over. Folks, Twitter's a dumpster fire right now not worth diving in to. Do yourselves a favor and switch to Mastodon or BlueSky.