Twitter Inactive Accounts Policy is very stupid

[gabrielrock19]

It's weird to post on Nexus Forums about twitter, but I don't use many different boards anyway. So, I wanted to share this with fellow twitter/x users here.

The inactive account policy is a really dumb move from Musk. Because

1. It puts ineffective psychological pressure on users to supposedly keep or increase a large active userbase

and 2. You can easily circumvent the inactive accounts policy by saving your login session on any browser or the app. And not necessarily using X for way more than 30 days.

This is so dumb. Tell me if you disagree, but both the inefficacy of applying the policy and the "cheat" to evade it are obvious. Here's why I don't think they use sophisticated ways to track your actual engagement:

1. The X Help page defines inactivity as based on logging in. This is their sole metric.

2. If they decided to monitor access or time spent on the site as well, it would not only be different from login but also prone to error. Furthermore it would be viewed as a very intrusive policy by the community.

3. Apparently, even Twitter Blue subscriptions can be gutted as per the inactive policy's current version? This wouldn't end well for the majority of users who pay yearly premium access and that somehow didn't interact with X for at least 30 days? Even then, what counts as an interaction? Viewing? Posting? Scrolling? Linking?

4. There is doubt all over the internet on weather or not X actually enforces this policy on the first place. There are many reports of 8-year old inactive accounts still standing.

So therefore they likely only monitor login and you can easily skip past it. Since Musk took over, X is buggier, greedier, has zero human support staff and requires premium so you can run ads. The only advantage is that now if you're a content creator you can use X's Ad System to promote tweets and other content by paying. The algorithm is pay-to-win now, so if you have the funs, go for it.

[JimboUK]

He's ruined it, the worst thing he did was introduce monetisation, now the place is wall to wall clickbait, engagement farming and bots. 

[gabrielrock19]

5 hours ago, JimboUK said:

He's ruined it, the worst thing he did was introduce monetisation, now the place is wall to wall clickbait, engagement farming and bots. 

Dude, you don't know the half of it. Their support is 100% bots.

I have an artist profile on X as pretty much every other artist trying to grow a modest following and show/sell his work, but I realized the algorithm was punishing for not paying. You fight for scraps of engagement on the basic plan.

One day I tried investing some money to "quick promote" a post (there's a button called "Promote" next to posts if you have a creator account). I filled in the data, selected my target audience and was ready to pay $25 just to test how things would go. Then...

The site glitched and the buttons vanished. I was told by users around the internet that you needed to message support so they could fix it. I sent a direct message to X Ads Support and... nothing. They answered nothing.

Time kept passing and I thought: "Maybe this system is glitched. Let's try the Ads System". I log in to the Ads Interface. The formal Ads System has much more options regarding demographics, age, target audience, interests etc. than the quick promote feature.

All right. So I fill every form and get ready to pay $25 to test run it. But then... the system glitches and tells "X is waiting for your premium verification to be reviewed" so the ad campaign can actually run. Is this for real?

After a lot of thinking, I purchased yearly premium and suddenly... the quick promote button "mysteriously reappeared". The Ads were greenlit and I could finally pay for a limited campaign test.

This is sketchy as hell. Like, the tactics. They're all shady. They disguise these bugs as bait to supposedly lure you in, but there's no real indication of any outcome. Support doesn't give a damn if you're not premium. To this day they didn't answer my ticket.

And yes, you NEED premium to run Ads on X. Even if they pretend otherwise. Couldn't they be transparent about it? Do they think "glitching out" someone right as the ads are about to go through so they can "be forced" to buy a premium service will work?

I'll tell you why it "worked" with me: it's because X is a big social network with a lot of user engagement. That's why. If it wasn't, no one would actually tolerate this crap so they could try to make a living. This is as stupid as it gets. Shady and dumb.

I mean what the f...?

One last surprise: X told me "The Staff" would review my account so they could add the blue checkmark, and that this process could take some time. But I refreshed the page and... There it was, the blue checkmark. What?! That took a second at most. There's barely any human staff there. I'm very sure 90% of Support is run by AI.

God Damn. Elon is a trash can.

[JimboUK]

It doesn't surprise me in the slightest, they take money for premium and then limit people's visibility, I'm following around 7,000 people but I only see posts from the same 100 or so over and over again, many of these people are paying and their posts are being hidden. Things weren't great when Jack Dorsey was running the show but they were nowhere near as bad as they are under this megalomaniac clown.

[Classiccars425]

What gone wrong with Elon Musk's X formerly Twitter social media platform since 2022?