Twitter to make it easier to report harmful tweets

(Pocket-lint) - Twitter has published a blog station aimed astatine clarifying immoderate of the changes it's readying to marque it easier to respond to and emblem up harmful contented that users spot oregon person directed astatine them connected the societal media app.

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Currently, reporting a Tweet involves a somewhat wordy bid of menus wherever you tin prime reasons wherefore you deliberation a Tweet is problematic, but successful often vague ways that don't marque it wide precisely what you deliberation is incorrect with it.

The caller options, arsenic explored in the blog post, alternatively connection the accidental to categorise what you deliberation the Tweet is doing incorrect according to its content, alternatively than by Twitter's analyzable presumption of service, which volition reason with a proposal of the benignant of study you astir apt privation to file.

Twitter calls this "symptoms-first", establishing what happened earlier the study is concluded, and believes that it'll marque things easier for the users reporting a Tweet rapidly - to the constituent wherever it's already investigating the strategy crossed a tiny radical of users successful the US.

The strategy besides offers a batch much types of offence for users to select, creating the accidental for much close reports to nonstop through, each of which should marque it much straightforward for Twitter to woody with them.

While it doesn't accidental this explicitly, it besides means that if Twitter receives ample volumes of reports astir types of Tweet that aren't presently breaking its presumption of service, but nevertheless are offending swathes of people, it could pass aboriginal changes to those presumption of service.

For now, the work isn't acceptable for the wider user-base, but the blog station indicates this rollout should commencement successful aboriginal 2022, truthful determination isn't excessively agelong to hold until you tin study Tweets with a small much empowerment.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 8 December 2021.