Twitter has introduced two new features that aim to improve the user experience of its microblogging platform. Here’s what they are
Twitter announces the introduction of two important new features aimed at better protecting the privacy of its users. Last month, the microblogging platform had already confirmed the start of operations to test a new spam filter available to those who prefer to keep their account public and often find themselves targeted by a series of direct messages that are not always pleasant.
After the experimentation, the final roll-out has started, which provides for the distribution of this new option for both the mobile app and the desktop version. The anti-spam function has been made known by the Twitter Support account and completes the series of tools developed to ensure greater privacy to its members. Among these, there is also the “Hide reply” function, launched a few weeks ago in Japan and the United States after a test in Canada, which allows you to select replies to a tweet and hide them, but without deleting them.
Anti-spam filter: already enabled?
To check if your Twitter account benefits from the new anti-spam filter, just go to direct messages and select the item “Message Requests”. If enabled, the system will not show the preview of the messages that automatically have been branded as offensive, suspicious or inappropriate for the user or simple spam messages, moreover it will be possible to delete them directly without necessarily having to open them. In addition, on the Twitter app for iOS, Android, as well as on the Web version, an alert will be displayed whenever a filtered message arrives.
Twitter: no to sex workers
The second novelty concerns the so-called NSFW content, or content that is “unsafe in the workplace”. The phenomenon of content with nudity and sex scenes had so far been tolerated by the social network, as long as the sexual images did not appear in the header elements or in the profile photo. Apparently Twitter has blocked NSFW profiles by asking for the personal phone number of the account holder to make sure that they are not just red light spam-bots.