Talk:X (social network)

The introduction states:

The platform has the lowest rate of enforcement against violations of law, and its policies after Musk fired Twitter-era employees, have faced criticism.

Lowest rate compared to what? All websites on the internet? All social media websites? All social media websites above a certain number of users? The sentence also doesn't have a citation so it's not even possible to try and figure out what this is referring to.

Someone should at least add a citation needed hint. I can't do it because the page is locked. ~2026-48715-20 (talk) 19:48, 9 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Agree. I've removed it. — Czello ^(music) 19:53, 9 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

The redirect This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules. has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 September 12 § This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules. until a consensus is reached. A1Cafel (talk) 03:44, 12 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

It's really shocking if not surprising that the history of the twitter recommender algorithm has been deleted from this page since the last time I looked at it. It is critically important particularly to social science research for people to know that there was no recommender until around 2014 (other than "trending topics", which is listed here) when the recommender was introduced, and what the rate of uptake was, and when it changed to being the default. Present X behaviour is not twitter. X cannot be used as twitter was to e.g. assist people during natural disasters. The information flow has just been changed. Joanna Bryson (talk) 14:48, 24 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

The first sentence of this article's second paragraph reads "The platform was created in March 2006 as Twitter by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year; initially named twttr, it was renamed Twitter some months later." If it was in fact "initially named twttr," than shouldn't it read "The platform was created in March 2006 as twttr...?" Joebobajeeba (talk) 15:49, 5 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Because 𝕏 looks more like the twitter logo than X you should replace it with that, and also so people can get the character 𝕏 ~2026-55611-00 (talk) 15:42, 18 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

See Talk:X (social network)/Archive 8#Stylized as 𝕏. Signed, SleepyRedHair. (talk - contribs) 15:46, 18 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

wasn't exactly a consensus there dude.

it was literally just a war of idiots not concluding to something Jenlo313 (talk) 05:34, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Jenlo313: See WP:NPA. You're not allowed to call others names, it isn't constructive. --not-cheesewhisk3rs ≽^•⩊•^≼ ∫ (pester) 14:09, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Even if you are correct, if we don't have a consensus to support something we don't do it. Edit warring it in anyway is not how this works. And we have a Wikipedia-wide consensus to follow Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks, which is in direct opposition to this. MrOllie (talk) 14:32, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

dawg you still do things even with no consensus

what are you talking about??? Jenlo313 (talk) 14:44, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

"And we have a Wikipedia-wide consensus to follow Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks, which is in direct opposition to this."

Then people should've just lead with that when they reverted my addition! Jenlo313 (talk) 14:45, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

dawg you still do things even with no consensus. No, absolutely not. See WP:ONUS. MrOllie (talk) 16:06, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

"The responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on editors seeking to include disputed content."

Keyword is "disputed."

How do you know if content is disputed? You don't know until you add it and someone objects. Jenlo313 (talk) 16:10, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Right, and people were objecting/reverting, and you went on adding it anyway. MrOllie (talk) 16:57, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

ok that's fair Jenlo313 (talk) 17:00, 4 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Do you understand what display issues that would cause across devices? How would that affect screen readers? Do they all have the right encoding to read 𝕏 as X? CloudyDayJoy (talk) 06:16, 7 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Currently, there's two headers in the History section. 2006-2021 and since 2022. The problem is that the later is an excerpt from the main article and is very different in style from the rest of the section. For example, it isn't chronological, and it has bigger paragraphs. Also, the titles of the headers imply that the former section ends on December 31, 2021, while the later section only begins on October 27, 2022, missing 10 months of history. Finally, the later section seems to focus on criticisms much more than the former. Koubaki (talk) 16:16, 21 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

There are a lot of events from those 10 months on Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk which is linked in a hatnote. There doesn't seem to be much on the timeline of X for that period either though so that might not be anything to do with the layout of this page. Even if the criticism is due weight (which I suspect it might be), still per Wikipedia:Criticism it should probably be integrated into the timeline rather than being set aside in one big paragraph. --– Mullafacation『talk』 21:35, 21 October 2026 (UTC)Reply