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Twitter tests a feature that warns users of profiles with potentially sensitive content

3/9/2017

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Twitter tests a feature that warns users of profiles with “potentially sensitive content”

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Twitter confirmed it’s testing a new feature which flags users’ profiles as potentially including “sensitive content.” When you click on one of these profiles from a link on Twitter, or if you visit the profile’s web page directly, you won’t be immediately shown the users’ tweets. Instead, a warning message displays, reading “Caution: This profile may include sensitive content.”

When you click a link to the profile on Twitter, the message appears in a pop-up window. And if you visit the profile directly, the warning message is all that displays until you agree to view the content by clicking the “Yes, view profile” button.

A reporter at Mashable first spotted the feature, when trying to view the profile of technology analyst Justin Warren, but could not determine how the content was flagged.

Image credit: Mashable

That’s fairly difficult to do in this case – after all, Warren’s tweets seem fairly innocuous, except for a little swearing at times.

Twitter tells us the new feature works similarly to how other sensitive content on Twitter gets flagged, based on users’ settings.

Currently, the company permits content that contains violence or nudity, but it draws the line at “pornography or excessive violence in live video, or in your profile image or header image,” according to its page on sensitive media. It doesn’t mention profanity, racism, bigotry and other types of offenses, however. But sensitive content is not limited to “violence or nudity,” we’re told.

Users can choose to mark themselves as someone who tweets sensitive content through their “Privacy and Safety” settings.

In addition, other Twitter users can report tweets to the Twitter team for review. In this case, if the tweet is determined to be potentially sensitive, Twitter will label the content appropriately – or remove it, if it’s a live video. It may also adjust your account setting for you, so your future tweets are marked accordingly, if it deems necessary.

For repeat violations, Twitter may permanently adjust that setting on your behalf, it says.

The process for marking entire profiles as sensitive follows a similar set of guidelines and processes, including the fact that Twitter can take an active role in identifying these accounts, based on the content of the account’s tweets.

The feature is still in testing, and not widely rolled out at this time.

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the new feature, saying “this is something we’re testing as part of our broader efforts to make Twitter safer.”

In recent days, Twitter has taken a number of steps to address the issues of safety and abuse on its network. It has rolled out new filters for hiding harassing content, safer search results, a “time out” feature for bullies, user interface tweaks to hide low-quality and abusive tweets, a better Mute option, more transparency around abuse reporting, and smarter algorithms for identifying and handling abusive content, as well as those that prevent abusers from coming back after bans using new accounts.

Warning users about select individuals is not necessarily another change aimed at quelling abuse, but rather making the network feel more friendly. It’s not exactly a novel idea, of course. Plenty of networks flag content that’s not appropriate for all to see – like YouTube’s warnings on age-restricted content or Facebook’s warnings about graphic content, for example.

As with other new anti-abuse features, some people seem genuinely baffled as to why they were flagged, not seemingly able to connect the dots between their tweets and their consequences.

Case in point (um, sensitive content warning):

almost like modern women around the world just want to be the ugliest most violent most STD-ridden most callous versions of men possible. ?? https://t.co/ymJRa7ElRd

— SENSITIVE Art/Italy? (@anaisnin) March 9, 2017

Don't kink shame rapists—bigot! When a fetishist feels others consent (in their heart) don't chastise him for feeling that way #rapistphobia

— SENSITIVE Art/Italy? (@anaisnin) March 6, 2017

Don't criticize people born able-bodied who feel they should lose limbs & be disabled & get disability checks for life #selfmutilationphobia

— SENSITIVE Art/Italy? (@anaisnin) March 6, 2017

bake the cake bigot or else!
trans the kid or else!
burn the book or else!
separate but equal again
or else!

silence is violence! be quiet!

— SENSITIVE Art/Italy? (@anaisnin) March 6, 2017

Choose HIV positive not hate, bigot. AIDS is love. Come is love. Don't kink shame. Don't judge 57 year old men turned into 6 year old girls.

— SENSITIVE Art/Italy? (@anaisnin) March 6, 2017

Some women are so stupid &stubborn they will celebrate getting cancer from stds because they equate equality as being as much of dogs as men

— SENSITIVE Art/Italy? (@anaisnin) March 5, 2017

sick of people who live to be vulgar every moment of their miserable lives—who are gross exhibitionists with BAD TASTE creeping out everyone

— SENSITIVE Art/Italy? (@anaisnin) March 5, 2017

Oh, such as…?

 

(I mean, perhaps someone didn’t like the tweets amid the posts of”art and literature and Italy” and reported them? Idk, wild guess!!) 

Twitter did not say when the new feature would be more broadly available.

Featured Image: Vdovichenko Denis/Shutterstock




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March 9, 2017 at 06:04AM

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