Attention can be a blessing and a curse, especially on Twitter.
The social media platform
“Safety Mode is a feature that temporarily blocks accounts for seven days for using potentially harmful language — such as insults or hateful remarks — or sending repetitive and uninvited replies or mentions,” explains Jarrod Doherty, a senior product manager at Twitter, in a blog post.
Notably, the feature isn’t available to everyone yet. According to Doherty, as of Sept. 1, only a “small feedback group” using iOS, Android, and Twitter.com will have the option to enable Safety Mode.
Once that feedback group starts turning it on, Safety Mode will begin proactively blocking accounts at Twitter’s discretion.
“Authors of Tweets found by our technology to be harmful or uninvited will be autoblocked, meaning they’ll temporarily be unable to follow your account, see your Tweets, or send you Direct Messages,” continues Doherty.
Of course, there’s always the chance that the algorithm powering this feature will be too enthusiastic in its blocking, leading to false positives and claims of
Doherty admits as much, writing that “we won’t always get this right and may make mistakes[.]”
As such, Twitter intends to “observe how Safety Mode is working and incorporate improvements and adjustments before bringing it to everyone on Twitter.”
We imagine that everyone will want it, kinks ironed out or no.
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