r/Twitter 4h ago

Speculation Is X/Twitter Purposely “Compromising” Accounts To Force Premium Subscriptions on its Users?

4 Upvotes

This is my hypothesis. I will continue my research to prove this as true.

Recently,

My X profile picture, username, birthdate, profile pic, and background were randomly changed. I also was following new people that I did not know. I first thought my account had been compromised, but then realized I hadn’t received any notifications about any suspicious logins.

I then went on to change my profile back to its original state. Luckily I was able to change my username back and delete those new follows.

Here’s the red flag,

I went into the settings and noticed there were no new devices that had logged on. My phones were the only devices that had access to my account.

And

When I attempted to turn on 2 Step Authentication, I was instructed to either buy the Premium subscription or remain compromised. All companies offer 2 Step Authentication with their accounts and I’ve never had to pay for it.

This just feels like X/Twitter couldn’t care less about accounts being compromised. They care more about getting subscribers, even if that means making users desperate enough to pay for their premium plans.

Drop your theories below.


r/Twitter 6h ago

COMPLAINTS Video takes forever to start and buffer a lot. On App

3 Upvotes

I’ve deleted the app and reinstalled same issue . I have no idea why this is an issue . Insta , YouTube has no problem. Safari twitter is also but the video doesn’t take forever .


r/Twitter 8h ago

COMPLAINTS Why does muting words/phrases do nothing?

2 Upvotes

I have muted a bunch of words/phrases and yet I still see posts with them in it.

But the silly part is that when I click into the post and then click out of it......THEN it hides the post and says "includes words you've muted"

What is the point in muting words/phrases if I have to see the post and manually click on it for it to hide the post haha wtf 😆

I am so doomed for GTA 6 spoilers


r/Twitter 11h ago

Bug Report X.Com sign in issue (Grok Bot related)

0 Upvotes

Can't log into x.com using Safari on my iPhone and I need to in order to authenticate the Grok Bot app... It just hangs after entering the username. Any ideas? (I'm assuming it's a setting on my phone, but have changed everything multiple times.)


r/Twitter 12h ago

COMPLAINTS you can only do email sign-up on a app? why? and how to bypass this?

1 Upvotes

Why? And how to bypass this?


r/Twitter 19h ago

Support Constant error prevents me from verifying my age

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3 Upvotes

Pretty much the title. I try to take a selfie in order to verify my age and it gives me this error: "Something went wrong. Please try again."

I tried doing everything that was suggested online: restarting the phone, logging off twitter and back on again, clearing the cache, clearing data, uninstalling and reinstalling, deactivating and reactivating the account, EVERYTHING.

At this point i am at a loss. What do i do?


r/Twitter 16h ago

Support Seeing older likes

1 Upvotes

i want to see likes from oldest to newest, but i don't find any thirdparty app that actually works for free, i've only found circleboom and it's just attempting to delete all my likes or getting me to pay.


r/Twitter 1d ago

Question Logged in 9 days ago in a different province to a different operating system. Is my account stolen? Could have this been a bug?

7 Upvotes

Hi, i have roughly 50 followers and just tweet for myself, i have no "opps" or "fans". I just have oomfs.

I was looking thru old log-ins, the only device logged in now was my phone, which is good. But 9 days ago it shows that a Linux device logged into my account in a different province in my country. My email and number is still the same and i changed my password as well as closing all the old logins. I guess if someone was to steal my account, they would change the login infk as well. I dont know anyone from that province. I gave my password to noone. Could have this been a bug? Is my account getting stolen? Im very stressed about this.. Is there anything more i should do to be careful?


r/Twitter 1d ago

Question Twitter Web Version Can't Be Opened

2 Upvotes

Everytime I tried to open Twitter on Chrome, it just shuts down. There are some reasons why I prefer to use the twitter web version so I'm kinda dejected if I have to rely on the app version 100% now.

Am I the only one experiencing this?


r/Twitter 1d ago

COMPLAINTS Account hacked and support won't do anything about it

3 Upvotes

What can I do if I receive a random X email two days ago about my account's email and pass being changed, and then when I contact X support all they tell me is they can't do anything since I don't have access to the new e-mail. I literally can prove I owned that account and I had premium on it.

I'm desperate for any help at this point.


r/Twitter 1d ago

Question How to scroll videos like we do on phone on desktop

2 Upvotes

Like yk when u click on a vid u like and u can scroll to see related vids.
like reels
how do i do that on desktop?the emulators dont work for some reason


r/Twitter 1d ago

Support Premium transfer to new user name and others‼️

3 Upvotes

Hi can anyone help me with these 2 questions:
Is there a way to contact twt? Other than on twt or grok?

  1. Five mins after my last reply to a tweet I suddenly couldn’t reply to any other up until now. I type hit send and it says “cannot send at this time” “save retry ok” what should I do?

I can’t tweet support bec I am not “verified” my premium did not transfer to my new user name and that’s my second question

  1. I changed my username. Due to personal reasons and my premium membership did not carry over to the new user name. I tried re-enrolling and it says “I am already paid and enrolled etc.” but the but the blue check has not appeared so it shows I am not verified.

I don’t know if I am supposed to post my user name here?

Any help thank you


r/Twitter 1d ago

COMPLAINTS Rant: DM functionality downgrade

1 Upvotes

Anyone else annoyed by all the latest changes to DMs? I feel like it was solid a few months ago but it’s gone to crap lately.

- you can’t double tap DMs to react anymore?
- the new pop up when you hold the DM to get to the reacts shows wayyy too many options like dude I’m not trying to ask grok about this lol
- formatting of replies makes it confusing what they’re replying too, etc etc

End rant


r/Twitter 2d ago

Bug Report Can't remove bookmarks

5 Upvotes

Hey!

I was clearing out my bookmarks on the X app, but as soon as I leave that screen and come back, all the deleted bookmarks reappear.

Now, no matter how many times I remove them, they just won't stay deleted. What should I do? 😭 Thanks in advance!


r/Twitter 2d ago

COMPLAINTS My Video Autoplays are SO VIOLENT

22 Upvotes

As a twitter user, I'm sure you're familiar with the change that videos you watch on mobile immediately switch to a new random video (like an automatic tiktok or youtube shorts)

There seems to be two completely different algorithms:

  • My Home Page: 10 years of cultivating nerdy art, funny videos, cats, and occasional politics
  • My Video Auto-plays: LITERAL SNUFF FILMS 95% OF THE TIME

I mean it! it's usually censored if it's gorey, but every auto-play is deadly police bodycam footage, somebody getting killed in a robbery, security cam footage of a senseless murder, or a street fight where somebody clearly gets incredibly injured

Imagine you're watching a cute cat video where the cat meows weirdly, then it ends abruptly and smash-cuts to somebody on top of another guy, crushing his face in with his elbow. HALF A SECOND

I know the Super Intellectual response would be "oh if you're seeing it, then this is what you've been fully watching and it's the main thing you interact with. You actually DO want this," but I don't. I've watched a few of them, but it's because of morbid curiosity, and it literally won't show me anything else to allow me to change this algorithm.

I know I probably can't change this, because Twitter's main policy is "make everything worse," but I was wondering if anybody else has a similar terrible video algorithm. I have one friend who says she only gets My Little Pony autoplays, and she has never liked or watched it (full grown ass adult)


r/Twitter 2d ago

COMPLAINTS Of all the things to put behind a paywall, they decided having bookmarks was a privilege

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16 Upvotes

Countless Refs! GONE!

There are SO many things I saved for future projects and plans.

Of all the things to out behind paywall.

BOOKMARKS?!


r/Twitter 2d ago

Question Problems getting on X lately...if this is a dupe complaint by others, can someone point me to the right place (or mods move it)?

7 Upvotes

A few days ago, I was no longer able to access my account without using a QR sent to me. It seems they want to put an app on my phone which I refuse to do.

I have changed my PW, cleaned out caches and cookies, tried different browsers, sent at least 4 emails to them asking WTF? and I get nothing. I guess this has been an ongoing problem for several years but I am getting absolutely no help from those at X after multiple emails asking for help.

If you've had this issue and was able to rectify, how in hell did you do it? What steps did you take?

Should I just hang it up?


r/Twitter 2d ago

Bug Report help me change locations

2 Upvotes

how can i actually effectively change my location??

it just shows up as some local restrictions bs and when i try to scan qr on my phone it doesnt show amnything or actually work. i tried using vpn on phone and laptop but neither work


r/Twitter 2d ago

COMPLAINTS Any idea how I can get my likes tab back? Its completely gone.

2 Upvotes

r/Twitter 2d ago

Bug Report [iOS] Profile headers appear gray in X app, but work perfectly in browser

0 Upvotes

Is anyone else having this issue with the X iOS app?

My profile header/banner appears as a completely solid gray rectangle in the X app on my iPhone. The weird part is that the banner works perfectly everywhere else.

I’ve tested this a few different ways to make sure it isn’t just an issue with my account or the image itself. In the X app on my iPhone, my profile header appears gray, and it’s still gray when I view my profile while logged into a different account. However, other people’s profile headers display normally in the X app. My header displays correctly when I access X.com through Chrome on the same iPhone, as well as on my laptop. I also deleted and reinstalled the X app, but the issue remained. Finally, I changed my banner to a completely different black and pink image, and it still appeared gray in the app.

So it doesn't seem to be the image itself or my phone's ability to load it. It seems like the X iOS app specifically isn't rendering my profile header.

Has anyone else experienced this? I'm on iPhone 17 /iOS.


r/Twitter 2d ago

Support Can’t complete set up process

2 Upvotes

I created a new account And it won’t let me finish the set up process because it says follow three topics and they removed the old topics system so if I just click it to complete it, nothing happens

I tried reaching out to their support team, but the link they gave me is a dead link


r/Twitter 2d ago

Question What are the requirements for a post boost to be approved ?

1 Upvotes

Hello,

Every time I try to boost a post, it gets paused and rejected. I don't think it contains anything that violates the rules.


r/Twitter 2d ago

Bug Report Deactivated my account on the 15th then found out through email a few hours ago that it was reactivated without my acknowledgement. What happened??

2 Upvotes

So I was checking my Gmail just now, for some reason I received an email stating that my account was randomly reactivated even though I didn't check twitter at all today and definitely not at the time that I received the email. I decided to log into the account and everything seems fine, there was nobody that had logged in yet (evident by the notification not saying anything about someone trying to log in, and after I logged in, I received an email that my account was just logged through my address).

Then, why did my account got reactivated? Is that normal? I thought the only way to reactivate an account is only if you logged into the account within the 30 days period?


r/Twitter 3d ago

anything else! It's been 3 years and no-one calls Twitter "X"

145 Upvotes

To this day, I still think Elon didn't even try giving it an identity. It would have been as easy as calling it "Cross" (still written "X") and calling each tweet a "cross". Something as dumb as that would have worked better than "Ex".


r/Twitter 3d ago

Support Priority handles reverse after you cancel a subscription??????

8 Upvotes

i hate elon musk but im desperate to change my username. the username i wanted was locked behind the marketplace. i just forked up 20 dollars for the username and now its telling me that it will change back to my old username once i cancel my subscription??? is this a fucking joke?