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August 28, 2016

Twitter Said to Work on Anti-Harassment Keyword Filtering Tool [Good News!]

Filed under: Filters,Tweets,Twitter — Patrick Durusau @ 8:08 pm

Twitter Said to Work on Anti-Harassment Keyword Filtering Tool by Sarah Frier.

From the post:

Twitter Inc. is working on a keyword-based tool that will let people filter the posts they see, giving users a more effective way to block out harassing and offensive tweets, according to people familiar with the matter.

The San Francisco-based company has been discussing how to implement the tool for about a year as it seeks to stem abuse on the site, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the initiative isn’t public. By using keywords, users could block swear words or racial slurs, for example, to screen out offenders.

Nice to have good news to report about Twitter!

Suggestions before the code gets set in stone:

  • Enable users to “follow” filters of other users
  • Enable filters to filter on nicknames in content and as sender
  • Regexes anyone?

A big step towards empowering users!

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