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Twitter announced Wednesday an update to its ongoing effort to pare back the volume of what it deems to be toxic replies sloshing around the social media platform. Specifically, starting May 5 on the Twitter iOS app and shortly thereafter on the Android app, English-language users may be shown “improved prompts” asking them to rethink their typed-but-not-yet-sent replies in a new — and presumably more nuanced — set of circumstances.
Wednesday’s announcement signals an evolution of an experiment first announced in May of 2020. Distinct from, but related in spirit to, Twitter’s “humanization prompts” test, the idea as initially explained by Twitter in 2020 was that sometimes people benefit from taking a deep breath before tweeting. Read more…
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