X (Twitter) for Android

X, formerly known as Twitter, is a free app for socializing and communication. You can share GIFs, photos, links, polls, text messages and videos on your profile through posts that used to be called 'tweets'. Your posts appear in various places: on your own profile, the newsfeed of people following you and their personal feeds.
You can follow other users or get followers yourself, just like before. However, fleets - temporary posts that lasted 24 hours and showed what you were up to at the moment - have been removed from X.
The app is easy to use, thanks in part to a row of buttons on its home screen that help you navigate: the first button shows your newsfeed; if there's something specific you want, tap the magnifying glass to search for people or keywords. Notifications are easy to find on the bell button and messages can be accessed via an envelope icon in the menu bar.
To make a post, tap the plus icon at the bottom-right of your screen and type: basic users have 280 characters to fill. As you write, a circular bar will gradually fill up according to the number of characters left in your post; it turns orange when there are 20 left and red at zero. You can add text, images or videos to your posts directly from local storage on your device; GIFs come from the app's library and you can include them too.
Another feature is polls - where questions are asked with up to four possible responses for others to vote on, but the minimum number of choices required in a poll is two. Each choice displays its percentage as votes come in and you can set how long your post/poll lasts using days, hours or minutes settings available on X .
One downside is that only four options are allowed in a single poll - which might mean having to make multiple posts if there's more than four choices. Additionally, while opinions from X polls can tell you what people generally think, because anyone can create an account and use it to vote multiple times for free , results may not accurately reflect individual opinions .
X allows you control over your interactions by setting whether or not profiles can be public, restricting non-followers from viewing posts and stopping mutuals quote reposting. You also decide who gets to reply in your threads: everyone; verified accounts only, followed users or just the ones you mention specifically.
The desktop version lets you schedule posts but this feature isn't available on mobile devices - a workaround is using third-party social media tools like Planable for scheduling and publishing.
While the platform offers free service, advertisements appear as promoted posts across your timeline which could be annoying because they show even if you don't follow promoting accounts. To see fewer ads , subscribe to the premium version .
Censorship has been reported with profiles and posts getting removed during heated debates; hence some users have moved away from X. For a free speech alternative, consider Parler .
If you want to search the platform anonymously or view curated content without signing in first , that option is no longer available; only registered users now have access .
The rebranding from Twitter to X follows Elon Musk's takeover. Changes include replacing old terminologies like 'tweets', 'retweet’ with ‘posts’,
‘repost’. Also notice how domain URLs haven't changed yet on desktop despite the rebranding . More changes are expected under Musk’ s plan to transform X into an ‘everything app ’ similar
to WeChat.