Twitter announced on Wednesday that it will roll out a safety mode feature that would allow the user to temporarily block accounts for seven days if they use harmful language or send unwanted replies. When Safety Mode is enabled, Twitter’s algorithms examine the content of tweets to determine the likelihood of a negative engagement and the author-replier relationship. Accounts that are often interacted with will not be automatically blocked, according to the company, because it considers existing relationships.
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Twitter had previously taken a number of efforts to prevent harassment on the platform; which frequently takes the form of unwanted responses directed at women and minorities.
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Twitter stated in a blog post that if it identifies a user “using potentially harmful language — such as insults or hateful remarks — or sending repetitive and uninvited replies or mentions,” the offending user will be automatically blocked on behalf of the targeted person. The automatic blocks are valid for seven days.
How Safety Mode can be turned on
Safety Mode will be available to a small group of testers on iOS, Android, and Twitter.com; starting with accounts that have English-language options enabled, according to Twitter.
Anyone using Safety Mode on Twitter can see and edit the accounts that have been automatically blocked for them.
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Besides Safety Mode, Twitter has also launched the Super Follows feature on its social media platform; which will allow creators to earn money by sharing subscriber-only content with their followers on a monthly basis.
iOS users in the US and Canada can super follow limited people within the US, according to Twitter; which added that the feature will roll out to iOS users globally in the coming weeks.
