Twiq - Social Chat

The amount of ads is insane. But don’t worry, you can pay $16/month - nearly the cost of an ad-free Netflix subscription - to turn them off and get access to basic features other apps give you for free. The moderation and support is a joke. They have a contact form on their website, but the messages apparently go into a void, so don’t expect a response. They do not ban predators who prey on minors, nor do they ban the minors. In fact, the CEO himself has commented on provocative pictures a known minor has posted. I suppose it makes sense why they don’t ban predators seeing as the CEO is one. They will ban active users for smaller violations though, such as calling out people who post hate speech. But don’t worry! If you do get banned, you can pay that $16/month to get unbanned. I wish this was a joke… if you get banned, you can message support and the one time you’ll get a response is to sell you on their premium version in exchange for your ban removal. This app is yet another Whisper, and we see what happened to that. I look forward to that day for Twiq.

First I will like to say that it is a fun app even if it has issues. There are weird people on here and they most definitely don’t moderate the app well. Children need to stay away. Now on to the biggest issue that I have faced. If you want to be verified and you aren’t male or female (I’m born intersex) you must have identification of this. All of my identification doesn’t reflect what my doctors say I am because my government didn’t put this when I was born. Twiq has a problem with this, they have refused verification and the representative even was unprofessional and rude about my valid questions. This isn’t an issue that everyone will come across (I’m a rare phenomenon) and I get not everyone is kind about the LGBTQ community but if you are non-binary you will have to either lie or just not become verified.

It’s a pretty nice app that doesn’t seem to have any bugs or issues. The only thing I would say is that it can be a little confusing at first with picking people to talk to. It’s set up where instead of a name or picture you pick an emoji which can be a little confusing if you’re talking to multiple people that have picked that same emoji. Other than that it’s a nice little app, think Tinder without photos.