Twitter will soon allow users to reconsider and edit their replies before they hit “tweet”. This will happen when the platform detects potentially harmful or abusive language in your response.
Twitter often comes under fire from government institutions and human rights activist groups for not doing enough to tackle abusive or offensive tweets. However, the micro-blogging site now seems to be taking a major step toward curbing potential harmful replies on Twitter. According to leaker Mukul Sharma, Twitter is testing a new feature that will encourage users to review replies with potentially harmful or offensive language. To be more specific, Twitter will give an edit button to remove words that may hurt sentiments or promote bullying. While the implementation and its documentation is not public yet, it will likely identify and label some of the words as offensive and will inform respondents accordingly.
