Twitter is testing innovative solutions to limit the visibility of any offensive tweets and prevent their access in the future.
These solutions include a feature that allows “filtering responses” that are potentially abusive, and another that allows “restricting accounts” that are potentially unwelcome in responses.
Twitter’s senior product designer, Paula Barsant, offered a sneak peek at the new features, which are just ideas at the moment that may turn into reality in the coming days.
Twitter will ask its user if he wants to activate the new controls in the event that he discovers responses with potentially harmful and offensive content, and that if activated, the site will stop displaying the abusive tweets of the account holder.
If potentially harmful or offensive replies to your Tweet are detected, we’d let you know in case you want to turn on these controls to filter or limit future unwelcome interactions.
You would also be able to access these controls in your settings. pic.twitter.com/ok5qXOf33Z
— Paula Barcante (@paulabarcante) September 24, 2021
Also, if the unwanted abusive “restrict accounts” feature is activated, users who have recently shown patterns of rule-breaking will not be able to reply to the tweets permanently.
To prevent the new controls from not being too inaccurate in filtering replies and unfairness for some users, Paula Parsant confirmed that Twitter will give its users the option to review filtered tweets as well as limited accounts.