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Twitter adding 'Not Safe For Work' filter
Worried about accidentally coming across ‘sensitive’ tweets at inappropriate times? Then this is for you…
Published in full with permission from Business Insider
TWITTER IS adding a new field in its API that will allow tweets to be marked as “sensitive.”
The way this works is that you’ll be able to tag your own tweets as “sensitive” and filter “sensitive” tweets out of your timeline. And conversely, anyone will be able to tag stuff as “sensitive” and Twitter will review them and decide whether they are.
To be clear, as far as we can tell, nothing will be ‘censored’; it’s just a matter of tagging what is or isn’t (or might be) NSFW.
This is a good, commonsense move for Twitter. Twitter wants to be a huge media platform, and huge media platforms have to have a way to identify that kind of content to be identified so that people who can be offended (or are tweeting from work or are children or whatever) can filter it out.
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