If I remember correctly you have to pay extra to be able to access private messages. Maybe you didn’t have this option enabled?

The problem is that when you pay them they still track you and still sell your data.

lol, no it wasn’t. They had a planned economy.

Twitter was mostly fine before, because it was before Elon added tons of debt to it through buying it. Now they have much more pressure to generate profit just to pay off interest on those loans.