Twitter will deploy in the coming weeks a feature to hide responses to tweets, failing to delete them. So far, users have very little control over responses to messages posted on the social network. A user can only report unwanted messages and hope for a removal by the moderation team of the social network.
Twitter continues its efforts to fight against the contents moved. It is often criticized for being fertile ground for the proliferation of insulting, offensive or discriminatory messages. In a post posted on his blog, the social network confirms a feature that will allow users to hide the desired responses to tweets they consider as inappropriate.
Twitter: soon an option to hide tweets
The feature was announced in early March by one of Twitter's employees. We now know that it will be available from June. Tests will be done beforehand. The social network will then decide whether or not to proceed with a general deployment, based on feedback. The feature in question will allow users to hide responses to a tweet, failing to be able to delete them as on Facebook, which also offers the two options (hide or delete a comment).
This feature is a double-edged sword, because if it is useful for fighting harassment, insults and other forms of misplaced publications, it could just as easily be abused. For example, to hide relevant answers in public opinion debates because the author of the main tweet has arbitrarily judged the disturbing nature of certain messages.
Finally, Twitter has also exposed its efforts to clean up the social network. It claims to have deleted 100,000 accounts created by users already suspended between January and March 2019. The responsiveness of moderators has been improved, there are 3 times more abusive accounts suspended in less than 24 hours, etc.
