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Twitter enhances the moderation of comments on tweets

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Twitter is developing a new feature that will give service users the ability to hide unwanted comments on published tweets. The first testing of the new functionality was discovered by application researcher Jane Manchun Wong (Jane Manchun Wong) during the analysis of the Twitter code. The administration of the service confirmed that this function is under development. Twitter is testing replies moderation. It lets you to hide replies under your tweets, while providing an option to show th...

The founder and former head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, announced the final departure from the company

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The founder and former head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey), announced his final decision to stop taking part in the management of the company. According to Dorsey, in fact, he no longer participates in the management of the company, having transferred all his competencies to Dick Costolo , the current CEO of Twitter. Dorsey said that he would like to concentrate on working on the Square project (payment service). Jack Dorsey said: “We did not report my decision publicly, since ...

Twitter began to self-delete offensive content

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Twitter introduces a new moderation policy, in accordance with which it will independently remove posts with offensive content, without waiting for complaints from users. According to a Twitter blog, the service can now identify 38% of abusive tweets. For comparison, last year, before the moderation policy change, this indicator was zero. The new policy led to the fact that users began to receive 16% less offensive comments from users on whose accounts they are not subscribed. In addition, a ne...