“Bring back the bird — This app is just full of ads and porn now. Such a massive shift from when it was Twitter. Was easy back then to find like-minded people and follow trends you wanted. A chaotic hot mess these days.”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 4,826 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.7 ★35,521,857 ratings
1B+Downloads
17+Age rating
651 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
X (formerly Twitter) is a social media app where you can follow breaking news, live events, and trending topics as they happen. Sports, tech, music, politics: whatever you're into, the conversation starts here, raw and unfiltered.
It's also a place to be heard. Post your take on the day's news, go live, and grow an audience for whatever you create. Millions of people come to X every day to find out what's happening and talk about it.
WHAT YOU CAN DO ON X
- Follow breaking news – Get news from around the world before it hits the headlines, with real-time updates on trending topics and viral conversations. - Post to a global community – Share your thoughts, photos, and videos. Join millions of users shaping public dialogue across social, cultural, and political conversations. - Ask Grok – Grok is the AI assistant powered by X's real-time data.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 12.31.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 12.31.1, updated 2026-10-02.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 12.31.0-prod.01 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 12.31.0-prod.01, updated 2026-10-02.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 12.31.0-prod.01, scanned 2026-10-03.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
6 or more requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
3 or more found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Asks for more sensitive permissions than similar apps
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
What we saw: Requests 7 sensitive permissions (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, CAMERA, READ_CONTACTS, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_PHONE_STATE, RECORD_AUDIO); the median for 22 scanned apps in News & Magazines is 2
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (0.5% of 2424 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Cancellation copy routes the user away from a direct control: "If you're experiencing any issues, our support team is here to help before you cancel."
In the app's own text: Countdown-timer purchase pressure
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
What we saw: Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Offer expires if you cancel"
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Vexing. Utterly vexing. — This is an absolute filthy gas station bathroom of an app. It’s just ads. Nonstop ads. This app used to be a good way to pass time, talk to funny and interesting people and know what was happening around the…”
“Need lots of improvement — I still see lots of hate comments and endless advertisements and reporting doesn't help. My friends X account was being hacked, and lost all of their money.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 12.31.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.