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Twitter is introducing new notices to make it clear to users that the company is taking action against problematic tweets.
“Now, once we’ve required a Tweet to be deleted, we will display a notice stating that the Tweet is unavailable because it violated the Twitter Rules along with a link to the Rules and an article that provides more detail on how we enforce our rules,” it says on its blog.
This notice will be displayed on both the account’s profile and the specific tweet for 14 days after the Tweet is deleted.
The rule breaker is also required to delete the offending tweet before the person can tweet again.
“We’ve also gotten feedback that you don’t want to continue seeing Tweets you’ve reported,” says Twitter.
So once a Tweet has been reported, it will be hidden from the timeline though a user can tap the notice to reveal the tweet again.
The changes will be rolled out to both the app and on Twitter.com over the coming weeks.
“Since early 2017, we’ve shipped more than 100 changes or experiments, made more than a dozen policy updates, expanded our teams and enforcement – all to continue building a safer Twitter,” it says.
Some measures taken by Twitter include stopping repeat offenders from creating new abusive accounts, introducing safer search results and burying potentially abusive or low-quality Tweets below more relevant conversations.
Twitter says it also updated rules with more details and examples to make it easier to understand, improved communication with people who break their rules so they know what they did wrong, and to notify people about the reports they file.
