Twitter Testing New ‘Heads Up’ Warning Feature

Twitter is testing some new prompts on its iOS and Android apps that warn customers of heated conversations occurring on the platform.

The new characteristic, known as “Heads Up,” is the corporate’s newest try to curb harassment and abuse on Twitter. The official Twitter Support account reveals off the 2 completely different prompts; one is a straightforward notification stating the conservation is intense and the opposite encourages empathy and fact-checking.

The second immediate has three guidelines reminding folks there’s a human on the opposite aspect, that information are essential to a dialog, and to be aware of various views.

When requested which metrics are getting used to evaluate what’s thought-about an “intense” dialog, Twitter Support responded by stating the platform has a set of standards to find out which threads require such a warning, however did not elaborate additional. The platform additionally will think about the subject of debate and the connection between the thread writer and different customers.

Twitter Support goes on to say that this characteristic remains to be a “work in progress.”

Heads Up is the newest in a line of options Twitter has enacted to empower its customers. Prior to this, the platform carried out Birdwatch earlier this 12 months and Safety Mode this previous September.

Birdwatch is a community-drive effort to fight misinformation on Twitter, however critics have referred to it as a type of censorship. Safety Mode, in the meantime, is a brand new account setting that blocks accounts utilizing “potentially harmful language.”