Custom Profile Field for

I think you want something like this:

<textarea type="text" name="twitter" id="twitter" class="regular-text"><?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'twitter', $user->ID ) ); ?></textarea>

Note, the input field has a value attribute while the textarea has it’s content between <textarea> and </textarea>

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