Accounts that Twitter deems should be blocked by anyone who checks this option will be blocked for at least 7 days
The term ‘toxicity’ or ‘being toxic’ is an issue that is increasingly worrying social networks. These platforms have become meeting points to talk and debate about all kinds of topics, but it is clear that not all of them have done so with respect. Without prompt attention, it can reach levels that are difficult to control. Faced with such a problem, Twitter introduced Safe Mode, a recommendation intended to help prevent malicious users.
Twitter You want your social network to be a less aggressive space. It has now started offering this feature in some English-speaking countries in such a way that surely it will soon reach the rest of the countries. Specifically, a wide implementation has been announced in US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.
To understand what it is, nothing better than go to Twitter website. Although it is not available, they already explain it clearly.
The social network “Looks for potentially abusive or spammy behavior, such as harmful language, negative and repetitive responses, and unsolicited mentions. Twitter flags such accounts and automatically blocks them from responding to your Tweets.”
The accounts that users follow or interact frequently will not be blocked, but the rest can fall into this process. In addition, any user has a dispute or behavior that the algorithm considers inappropriate. This implies that Twitter will scan all users for this purpose.
¿How it affects users who do not want to enable the Safe Mode feature?
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It will not be set by default. When available, users they will be able to enable it from their account settings, but it will also be available “from the proactive notification that it sends Twitter when we spot multiple Tweets you’ve received that appear to generate adverse attention or interactions.”
the accounts that Twitter consider that they should be blocked by anyone who checks this option will be blocked for at least 7 days.
Lastly, in Twitter want to reduce the hate and verbal abuse that exists in the social network, That is why they will enable this and other options, to try to make it a more pleasant environment. That is why, by activating it, you can reduce the ciberbullyingand help more platforms have this initiative.
Twitter will allow you to change the speed of videos and audios on the social network
The social network became known for the publications of criticism or ideas from different users; becoming the original nature of the platform. But, now it has another type of content, such as videos and audios.
Precisely, these will receive an important novelty, which will make its visualization much easier and; above all, more efficient, from the post feed, since Twitter has announced a very handy new feature.
In fact, the post shows some screenshots explaining how this new feature works. basically will have a new icon when playing the video, with the classic application installation button. After pressing it, we will see a new context menu to choose the playback speed of the video.
Up to eight different speeds can be chosen. Starting at 0.25x, technically the video will be played in slow motion, at a quarter of the original speed, or choosing the other extreme, 2,0x, the video will play in fast motion, at full speed, twice the normal speed.
As a result, you will be able to watch videos in an even more personalized way. Slower if the user does not want to lose the details of a particular situation in the video. Or, much faster, at twice the speed, if there are parts that are not interesting and you want to skip quickly until you get to the interesting part.
Twitter makes it clear that Twitter voice messages or audio notes can also be altered in terms of playback speed, and that this is understood in a similar way. A function that was recently seen in WhatsApp and it was very successful.
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