I've been terfed off X.com/Twitter

X, formerly known as Twitter, has updated their terms and conditions to explicitly permit adult content and pornography on the site.
https://www.digit.fyi/x-now-officially-allows-adult-content/

Number of users is only one of many, many metrics though.

What matters more than numbers of users is how easily you can interact with people who are interested in a topic.

WhatsApp, Messenger, Snapchat and probably some of the others there I'm not familiar with are mostly for private messaging, it's not somewhere you can post public content.

It's almost impossible to build a decent audience on Facebook through organic (i.e. not paid for) content these days.

YouTube, TikTok and Instagram are great but they take much more effort and you need to be good at creating video or visual content.

I don't see anything on that list that's a serious rival to Twitter in terms of ability to reach people outside of your own circle without having to become a social media expert.

Plus Twitter makes it really easy to read journos, authors, experts in all sorts of topics.

If Elon fucks it up it'll be a real shame.

It’s like Black Mirror.

This is pretty much the future - public disconnection without explanation so that we censor ourselves about everything, all the time.

Yes, Glomofnit, got two automated replies. Someone on Reddit had this work for them (cap in hand blah blah). https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/overhd/i_got_unsuspended_here_are_some_personal_tips/
I literally repost without comment, comment rarely (as I ain't got no algorithm) and 'like' a lot. Shoot me for the liking or following - how dare I !!
I did report a veiled threat to KJK. May have got on the X radar for that?

I seem ok for now. Logged on tonight - forwarded, commented etc. But please challenge obviously directly through the platform, but also directly to the directors. And uk MPs no way should an overseas company operating in the UK be able to not comply with UK law.

I think mass reporters are all over today. A thread that was up from yesterday morning on here, with no deletions, was suddenly pulled, as had "too many posts that breached guidelines " odd that it only happens at the weekend....

oh dear, I only joined X for GC content, so of course did this. Guess I'll get banned too

VPN and TOR on sites like reddit and twitter are the best way to make the site think you're a spammer or bot and either ban or shadowban your account.

You can get a fixed IP address through a VPN to evade detection.

Have you appealed it? I did that this morning and immediately got a very brief, standard response: "Hello, your account was suspended due to violating X's rules. After reviewing for reinstatement, your account will not be restored. Thanks, X"

That was IT. I emailed back with more of a personal statement than I'd given in the appeal form, saying I was a long-time user, had a variety of interests and followed a wide range of accounts (true), that I enjoyed engaging in debate and discussion, that surely X's lifeblood was its users and the ability to debate, but that debating entails opinions, and that I didn't think mine were at all reprehensible.

I got a slightly less depersonalised reply: Thank you for reaching out about case .... This case has now been closed and cannot be reopened, but we want you to get the help you need. Here's a link to our Help page or you could open a new case.

So ... maybe I'll do that. I replied, again asking for some concrete details of what they thought I'd done to violate their rules. I will be ASTONISHED if I get a reply.

I'm definitely too fighty on social media so maybe this will be a lesson to me, but I'm also outraged that there's so much toxicity on that cess-site, horrible threats to women, porn images, far right rabble-rousing - and in all probability I was reported by a TRA who's done their fair share of toxic posts. Who knows?

It’s not important if all you do is chat on Twitter itself, but I’m starting to make some real life connections with women I met on Twitter, so it may serve some functions.

Received the exact same message last night. I thought they had to itemise what rule you 'violated'? I didn't get that either.

I was already a de-boosted account that liked, reposted but commented rarely (2 or 3 a week). Even did their housekeeping - by blocking my porn-bot followers, by voting in community notes and reporting explicit threats to other users.

Make your own moral judgements about an activist-staffed moral mess of an app, and join again via a different email, username and a device not yet used by you? I've found the app on Android phone has retained my 'following' list so if I screencap I can and will manually add back, slowly. I was too small to catch the attention of Terfblocker users ⬆ and I can be small again.

Ah thanks. As you were!

VPN and TOR on sites like reddit and twitter are the best way to make the site think you're a spammer or bot and either ban or shadowban your account.

i I'd be careful about doing that. They'll see it as ban evasion and they could eventually block you by IP. I know because it happened to me when Parag Agrawal owned it as Twitter.

Use VPN and Tor 😉

I may have deleted my X account in the nick of time then!

I'd been finding it just unusable and unbearably toxic - I was an early adopter so had that account since whenever twitter started but didn't even want to keep it for sentimental reasons.

Those of you who persist - I salute you!

Just wanted to say - this has happened to me too! Last night, I was refreshing a page (ahem, a search on the phrase 'Michael Mosley', as I'm worried about him) and a notice flashed up saying my account was permanently suspended, with no concrete reason given. Just a range of possible reasons - I'm posting spam, I'm a bot, I've been abusive, I've been hacked... I have no way of knowing if I've been hacked or not, I did tell a rightwing bigot (Tommy Robinson type) to sod off the other day, I retweet 'gender critical' posts and follow a lot of the usual GC suspects ... It could be random reasons or a mistake but maybe I've been deemed toxic and denounced by a Child of the Revolution or something.

I'm pissed off though - I think it's 99% a cesspit but I do still value being able to see politics being discussed, and there are some personalities I follow (mostly comedians) who amuse me. And sometimes I just want to see what people are saying about breaking events.

Amusingly, Radio 4 are having their 'Kafka v. Orwell' day today and I filed my appeal to a background of a discussion of Kafka's The Trial.

(I felt, as well as the indignation and an undertone of Guilt ('I must have done SOMETHING'), a distinct sense of relief at being booted off. Maybe I should listen to that relief, but I did file an appeal report just now.)

What a world we live in. 😡

Yes, its been like that for years in fact, long before it became X.

It is amazing how people buy into the self serving publicity.

Twitter isn't itself important.

It is only significant because lazy journalists use it to stoke up sensational stories.

It servces no purpose in itself because it has so few users.

Only talking to the same people every day isn't really outreach or making connections. But like any platform has much more to do with the type of people you want to engage with.

Its just the illusion that its important because of how MSM manipulates what is happening there.

Its a bit like a local paper not bothering to find out what is happening in the region, but just going to some dodgy back street drinking hole, and then writing up 3 drunks having an arguement as a major news story.

Actually thinking about it a bit more, have you done anything else on there apart from "RT GC accounts and acquire followers?
As you've probably been flagged for bot like behaviour.

With Elon at the helm?!
What the actual WTAF did you say 😁
Must have been ban worthy lol

I keep my twitter 'clean' which I like partly because I don't get banned but also because I can read what the TRAs are saying without getting blocked. I recommend it. I don't think retweeting people is activism so I don't worry about not doing that.

I'd be careful about doing that. They'll see it as ban evasion and they could eventually block you by IP. I know because it happened to me when Parag Agrawal owned it as Twitter.