Twitter Expands Beta Test of Anti-Abuse Feature ‘Safety Mode’
Utilizing an algorithm to filter out harmful content.
Twitter is expanding access to its Safety Mode tool, a new way to limit undesired interactions on the platform. Last September, Safety Mode was first rolled out to a small group of 1,000 English-language users.
After months of feedback, Twitter is bringing the feature to more users in English-speaking markets, located across the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. The company said that the rollout will allow it to “gain more feedback and insights.”
For those with access to the beta, Safety Mode can be enabled in the settings menu, launching a screening process that automatically filters our potentially harmful or abusive content. In turn, accounts posting tweets deemed harmful won’t be able to follow the user, see their tweets or DM them.
Accounts that a user regularly interacts with won’t be subjected to the tool’s algorithm. Once turned on, Safety Mode lasts for seven days by default.
Twitter has yet to reveal when it plans to make Safety Mode available to all users.
Remember when we began testing a new feature called Safety Mode? After months of feedback from beta users, we’re excited to expand this to some of you in several new English-speaking markets to gain more feedback and insights. https://t.co/8TM7S5Zfuj pic.twitter.com/AqVOUwyNQv
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) February 15, 2022
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