qwertime itself, in plain words: joining and logging in, posting, people, messages and groups, notifications, safety and privacy, and AI assistants and websites. Mascot FAQ: your mascot →
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Getting started
What is qwertime?
A social network where a mascot is your face. You post (up to 500 characters and 4 photos), react and reply, follow people and their mascots, join groups and send messages, and your mascot acts out each post's mood beside it. Your AI assistant can lend a hand too.
Does qwertime cost anything?
No. Members pay nothing, and qwertime sells nothing to you. Designers, celebrities and brands sell their mascots in their own stores; qwertime takes no fee and handles no payment. A hire is between the merchant and the mascot's member.
How do I join?
Sign up with your name, a handle, your email and a password. Your handle is 3 to 20 letters, digits or _, and it is your address: qwertime.com/u/yourhandle. You need to be at least 13, or older where the law where you live says so.
Can I change my @handle?
Not yours: it is your address here. Your name, bio, link, picture and banner change any time in Settings, and your mascot's own @handle changes on Your mascot.
Logging in and your account
How does logging in work?
Your email or handle and your password, then one more step. If you are logged in on another device seen in the last 30 days, that device is asked "Is this you?" and you answer there; otherwise we email you a 6-digit code, good for 10 minutes.
Someone tried to log in as me: what do I do?
Answer Not me when your device asks: that login is refused (or logged out, if it got in with a code), and you are taken to change your password. A new password logs out every other device.
I forgot my password
Ask for a new one on Log in (Forgot your password?). One of your devices that has been logged in for a week at least, and used in the last 30 days, is asked "Is this you?": answer yes there, then choose your new password, and you are logged in. Every other device is logged out but the one that said yes. With no such device, write to hello@qwertime.com from your account's email address.
Where am I logged in?
Your devices lists every browser logged in and seen in the last 30 days: how it got in, when, and when it was last seen. Log any of them out, or every one but this.
How do I delete my account?
In Settings, Delete your account: type your handle and your password. It happens at once and cannot be undone. Your posts, replies and photos, your reactions, your messages (both sides), your follows and your mascot with its chest all go, and backups are replaced within 14 days. Replies others wrote to your posts stay; a group you own passes to its longest-standing member.
Can I get a copy of my data?
Yes: write to hello@qwertime.com, and we send you a copy, or correct it, within 30 days. There is no download button yet.
Posting
How long can a post be, and how many photos can it have?
Up to 500 characters, and up to 4 photos: JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF, 10 MB each (a GIF stays animated). A post with photos needs no words.
Can I edit or delete a post?
Edit its words and its mood for 30 minutes after you post it; it then says edited, and its photos stay as they were. Delete it any time: replies to it stay.
Who sees my posts, and who can reply?
Everyone: posts are public, except those in a private group, which only its members see. You choose who may reply to you: everyone, the people you follow, or no one.
What are the reactions?
Like, Love, Haha, Yay, Smart and Sad: one on a post from each member. Another replaces it; the same again takes it back. A repost shares a post (once; the same again undoes it). Your mascot answers the reactions to your posts as you choose.
How do #tags, mentions and Trending work?
A #tag is a word starting with a letter, up to 30 characters: it links to every post with it. Name @someone to tell them (a mascot's @handle tells its member). Trending is the tags in the most posts today, or this week on a quiet day.
Can I pin a post to my profile?
Yes, one of yours: it stays on top of your profile. Pin it again to unpin it.
People, messages and groups
How do I find people to follow?
People lists the newest members you do not follow yet, Explore has every member's posts, and Search finds people by name or handle. You can follow a mascot too.
Who can send me messages?
You choose in Settings: everyone, the people you follow, or no one. Messages are words (up to 1,000 characters) with a mood; you see when one is Sent and Seen, the other can react to it, and you can report one sent to you.
What are groups?
Any member can start up to 10. Anyone can read and join a public group; a private one shows its posts and members only to its members, who join by its invite link. Its owner picks moderators, and they remove posts and members.
What are rooms?
Chats that last 1 to 8 hours, of which qwertime keeps nothing: what is said in one is held only by the browsers of those in it. In each you go by a name and a colour of your own. Come in by a room's invite link, or ask to come into a listed one and its host lets you in. You see what is said from when you come in, and when the room ends it is all gone.
How do I invite friends?
Share your invite link (qwertime.com/join/yourhandle) or your card, or have us email an invite (10 a day). Whoever joins with it follows you, and you them.
Notifications and settings
Can I get notifications on my phone or computer?
Yes, on each device you turn them on for (Settings, or the Notifications page). Your browser asks first. Untick notifications or messages there any time.
Why did I get a reminder email?
After a week away, we remind you: once a week at most, four in a row at most, until you come back. "No more of these" in the email stops them, and so does Settings.
What are perks?
Discount and promo codes brands leave you. While a verified brand runs a promo, its mascot wanders onto members' pages, and its visit leaves you a code (one each promo). You are told in your notifications, and every code is on your Perks page with a QR: type the code at the brand's checkout, or show the QR in person, and they check it with their qwertime account. Asking for no wandering mascots on your pages (Your mascot) means no codes either.
Can I keep the mascots still, or the site dark?
Focus mode keeps every mascot still: none wandering in or roaming with you, and those by posts not moving. The theme is your system's, light or dark. Both are kept in this browser.
Interests, promos and your privacy
What are interests?
What you like, from a few main kinds (tech, fashion, food and drink...) down to products (phones, totes, coffee beans). Pick them on Interests: each one you pick for the first time earns your mascot points. They choose which brands' promos come your way first.
How are brands' promos chosen for me?
A brand can aim its promo at interests, at kinds of device (phone, tablet, computer) and at countries. Its mascot wanders first to members it is for, and leaves them a code; when none are about, to others too. What counts: the interests you pick, the hashtags you post with (qwertime's admins and moderators say which hashtags stand for which interest), and your device's kind and your country unless you keep them out.
Can I keep my device or my location out of it?
Yes: on Interests, untick the kind of device you are on, or your country, or both. Then they choose nothing, and only your interests do. Brands never see your interests, your device or your country: only how many of their codes were left and used, and, for a code they check, whose it is.
How do you know my country?
From your connection's address, worked out on our own servers with DB-IP's free data: no outside service is asked, and never more precise than a country. Untick it on Interests and it is not used at all.
Safety and privacy
How do I report something?
A post's ⋯ menu, Report on a message sent to you, or Report on a member's profile: pick what is wrong. qwertime's moderators remove what breaks the guidelines and can suspend a member; you are told when they act on your report.
Does qwertime sell my data or show ads?
No. We do not sell your data, there is no advertising or tracking from others, and no cookies for ads or analytics.
I found a security problem
Write to hello@qwertime.com with what you found and how to see it: we answer within 3 working days. Test only on your own account.
Someone posted my work
Send us a notice, as the Copyright page says: we take down what it is about, and tell the member who posted it.
AI assistants and your website
Can my AI assistant use qwertime?
Yes. Connect AI gives you a token (shown once, good for 90 days) for Claude or any MCP client. It acts as you, with only the tools you switch on: reading, posting, replying, reacting, messages, your mascot. What it posts or sends says "via" its name, and you can revoke the token any time.
Can I put my mascot on my own website?
Yes: one line puts it in a corner of your site, doing lively gestures and saying your latest post or your bio. A click brings your visitors to your profile.
How do I put a mascot I hired on my website?
It shows as it looked when you picked it, whatever its member changes after. Once its member accepts, Hires gives you its code, and two ways. With Domain Mascots' setup, no code: add your website there with the code, and set it up on your own pages (where it stands, what it says, tours). Or with your own code: one line, or switching between the mascots you hired from your site's code.