Twitter has announced a few policy changes With an aim to limit abuse on its social network. The popular online social networking service will now have a feature which will remove all tweets from the notifications timeline that contain abusive language, death threats, duplicate content and posts sent from suspicious accounts. However, the ‘quality filter’ is available to a few verified users on iOS, as of now.
A blogspot written by Twitter reads that it now “extends to ‘threats of violence against others or promot[ing] violence against others.’
It further elaborates, “Our previous policy was unduly narrow and limited our ability to act on certain kinds of threatening behavior. The updated language better describes the range of prohibited content and our intention to act when users step over the line into abuse.”
“We have begun to test a product feature to help us identify suspected abusive Tweets and limit their reach. This feature takes into account a wide range of signals and context that frequently correlates with abuse including the age of the account itself, and the similarity of a Tweet to other content that our safety team has in the past independently determined to be abusive.”
Meanwhile, Twitter has also announced a new feature which will allow users to receive or send direct messages to anyone.
