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Age suitability

The Publisher rates this 13+. We rate it 15+.

The publisher's age listing reflects submitted content disclosures. Our age signal reads the same surface against four posture areas — moderation, privacy, security, and youth protection — based on public evidence.

Publisher says

13+

Source: Publisher listing, retrieved 2026-05-06

Rooted Reality finds

15+

Based on public-evidence signals reviewed across four posture areas

Why we land where we do

  • Moderation. limited public disclosures for ages 15-17; expect to do extra reading of the surface's own documents before relying on it.
  • Youth protection. moderate public disclosures for ages 15-17; read the evidence list below before deciding how this surface fits your household.
  • Privacy. moderate public disclosures for ages 15-17; read the evidence list below before deciding how this surface fits your household.

What we looked at

Public-evidence signals across four posture areas. Each bar is what is publicly documented today — not a forecast and not a ranking.

Moderation

How the surface handles content rules, abuse reports, and harmful behavior.

45 / 100

Limited

Published content rulesWhat is allowed; what is not
Limited45 / 100
Abuse-report responseTime-to-action and outcomes after a report
Limited45 / 100
Transparency reportingVolumes, removals, appeals over time
Limited45 / 100

Privacy

What personal information the surface collects, how it is used, and who it is shared with.

60 / 100

Moderate

Data collection noticeWhat is gathered from a session
Moderate60 / 100
Training-data opt-outWhether session content feeds the model
Moderate60 / 100
Third-party sharingWho else can see the prompts
Moderate60 / 100

Security

How the surface protects accounts, devices, and stored data from compromise.

65 / 100

Moderate

Account protectionMFA, device review, recovery flows
Moderate65 / 100
Disclosure and vulnerability programHow issues get reported and fixed
Moderate65 / 100

Youth protection

Whether the surface ships specific protections for kids and teens out of the box.

50 / 100

Moderate

Teen-account defaultsReduced content for accounts under 18
Moderate50 / 100
Age-aware content limitsPersona, image-generation, and content gates
Moderate50 / 100

How peers stack up on age suitability

Same age signal, same evidence rubric, applied to surfaces a household is likely to encounter side by side.

Evidence reviewed

10 of 10 signals

Evidence list is pending review

Confidence

Pending

Confidence published with the next reviewed update

Reviewed against

X (formerly Twitter) · ages 15-17

Posture can change between reviews

Posture evidence

9 cited sources · medium confidence

Public sources Rooted Reality reviewed when scoring this variant against rr-posture-v1.1. Each source fires one or more rubric patterns visible below the title.

Official terms of service

  • The X Rules

    Codified content rules published as the X Rules.

    • TOS_CODIFIED_CONTENT_RULES

    Source dated 2026-05-06

Official transparency report

  • X Transparency Center

    X publishes transparency information; reporting cadence has been reduced and irregular since 2022 (most recent comprehensive report predates the 12-month window).

    • TRANSPARENCY_REPORT_STALE

    Source dated 2026-05-06

Official privacy policy

  • X Privacy Policy

    Detailed published privacy policy with data-handling specifics.

    • PRIVACY_POLICY_DETAILED

    Source dated 2026-05-06

Official help center

  • X two-factor authentication

    Two-factor authentication available; in-transit encryption documented.

    • TWO_FACTOR_AVAILABLE
    • ENCRYPTION_IN_TRANSIT

    Source dated 2026-05-06

Official security documentation

Breach disclosure

  • X — 2022 data-scrape disclosure

    Disclosure covering the 2022 API-flaw data scrape that exposed contact-association data for hundreds of millions of accounts.

    • DATA_BREACH_HISTORICAL

    Source dated 2023-01-11

Peer-reviewed research

Regulatory action

Evidence used

No public evidence published yet.

Detailed evidence sources will appear here as version-level reviews are published. The posture signals above reflect the public disclosures Rooted Reality has reviewed for this product.

Limits of this review

This page reflects what X (formerly Twitter) publishes and what Rooted Reality has reviewed. It does not assess internal compliance programs, undisclosed safeguards, or behavior beyond publicly documented evidence. Posture can change between reviews, and individual households may experience the surface differently depending on settings, account type, and version.

How to read this page. Rooted Reality summarizes what publishers publicly disclose, on a fixed rubric, so households can compare like to like. The age signal is a reading aid — not an endorsement, not a ranking, not a guarantee. Posture changes when policies, defaults, or product behavior change; the date above is when this surface was last reviewed.
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