If there is one thing Twitter many suffer from bullying on the platform. Time and again promises to do something about it. Today the company has three new measures have been announced to ensure that bullies on the platform faster are ignored.
It is not the first time that the platform measures announced, but previous initiatives have delivered too little. As promised to the platform earlier to dreigtweets tackle and there was a ‘security council’ established that Twitter is advice to go with. Also from the European Commission press. Ceo Jack Dorsey promised last week that these changes are really different.
It is on Twitter quite easy to be anonymous to create an account. Via this sort of accounts is often bullied. That is the platform to tackle by the owners harder to make after a blockage with another account to return.
How that works exactly, is unclear. Opposite techsite Recode wants to be a spokesman not much more to say than that it is a “combination of human reviewers and artificial intelligence”.
in Addition, the platform certain words, and thus tweets, filtering in the search results. This functionality, users can turn on or off and should avoid you in the search of hate-tweets to see.
Where many users also suffer from it, are hate-related or discriminatory comments. Twitter wants to go hide, in conversations these tweets automatically to fold. Therefore, they are less visible. These measures are mainly cosmetic; it changes nothing to the amount of nasty tweets, they are only less visible.
Especially the first measure, counteract the recurring bullies, can Twitter a lot to deliver. Until now had no good plan ready. So you have virtually no identification is required to be on the platform to be active. That is also the charm of Twitter. It is anonymous and therefore gives much more freedom.
The main question is whether this will be enough and whether it is sufficient work. Twitter has long suffered from bullies and has so many users scared, that people have switched to, for example, Instagram and Snapchat. Twitter is additionally in the eyes of many, not more hip.
Whether these measures can change the demand. It can be there in any case to ensure that life for existing Twitter users more bearable.
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