SPT Score - Twitter/X

Twitter, currently rebranding to X, is an online social media and social networking service operated by the American company X Corp., the successor of Twitter, Inc. On Twitter, registered users can post texts, images and videos. Users can post (tweet), like, repost (or retweet), comment and quote posts, and direct message other registered users. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile frontend software, or programmatically via its application programming interfaces (APIs). Taken from Wikipedia.

Terms of Service, Privacy Policy

Part I: Accounts

Score for Part I: -35

Part II: Use of service

Score for Part II: -120

Part III: Miscellaneous

Score for Part III: -25

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Total Score: -80

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.



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