Twitter is bringing some much-needed clarity to its reporting process. In an update outlined this morning on the company’s blog, the social network will now clearly highlight when a reported tweet had an enforcement action taken against it. The goal of this feature is to help the public understand when a rule-breaking tweet was forcibly taken down and not just simply deleted by the user due to backlash.
Usually, when Twitter determine that a Tweet violates their Rules, the company requires the violator to delete it before that person can Tweet again. According to feedback received by Twitter users complain that it’s not always clear to them when Twitter takes enforcement action. Starting today, Twitter is adding a new notification to make it easier to see for the users when Twitter has taken enforcement action on their Tweet.
According to twitter when the tweet is about to be deleted, Twitter will display a notice stating that the Tweet is unavailable because it violated the Twitter Rules along with a link to the Rules. This notice will be displayed on both the account’s profile and the specific Tweet for 14 days after the Tweet is deleted. This change is rolling out to both the app and the website in the coming weeks.
The users further complained that they do not want to continue seeing the Tweets that have been reported. So that too has been resolved once the update rolls out if a person had reported a Tweet, it will be hidden behind a notice and if there’s a need to see the reported Tweet, the user can tap the notification to view it.
Twitter is still grappling with how to balance free speech and harassment and other violations of its rules, with the company trying and largely failing in the quest to find an appropriate middle ground that will please everyone. While Twitter has admitted it’s far from solving all its issues around abuse, the company has been making progress lately in providing users with more tools to tailor their experience and more ways to drown out hate and screen it from ever showing up in your feed.
