Twitter Tries to Create Healthy Environment in Convos

Ethan James 09 Oct 2021

The Twitter team has begun testing a new feature that will help the service maintain a healthy conversation environment. It is understood that special prompts will let you know if the chat you want to open may become intense or the correspondence is conducted negatively. This option is already available to some users of Android and iOS devices.

The developers even posted a screenshot of a notice on the Internet, which encourages readers to adhere to standard norms of behavior, value others’ opinions, turn to facts, and stay humane. Artificial intelligence with machine learning is at the heart of it. It analyzes information in tweets and detects aggression, toxicity, and frivolous controversy. After receiving such a warning, you decide for yourself whether to join the conversation or not.

Based on the testing results, developers may revise some of the function features and the triggers on which the prompts are activated. According to Twitter, their system can analyze the topic of a conversation and even assess the relationship between authors to produce more accurate results. The company hopes this option will help people maintain a healthy chat environment and make the platform more user-friendly.

Recall that the company has already taken certain steps in this direction. In May, the developers added a warning that popped up when you were about to send a potentially offensive message. After that, you could edit the text. Before the introduction of this feature, testing took about a year. Its results were impressive and showed that it could really cool down the heat. Please share your opinion on this kind of feature. Do you find them effective? Have you ever been alerted before sending a message that it might be harmful or offensive?