Twitter Expands Access to New Safe Mode

The social network Twitter, as it became known, is finally expanding access to its new safe mode, providing the appropriate functionality as part of a new beta version, providing it at the moment to approximately 50 percent of all accounts present in the United States of America, Great Britain , Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. And if you go into details, the company began testing this feature back in September last year, but, as is usually the case, with a very small number of people.

Now the company is also starting to roll out its latest beta to additional English-speaking countries for the very purpose of getting more information and exploring ways to make further improvements. And if you’re not in the know, the Safe Mode mentioned above is essentially a new setting that automatically blocks accounts that Twitter thinks might be using “profanity” in one form or another. Such accounts, which the platform considers as such, will not be able to interact with you for seven days.

Users will have the ability to manually review tweets and accounts that Twitter deems inappropriate, and to unblock any account that’s been banned for you if, in fact, “you have no problem with it.” It’s also important to note that accounts that users follow or interact with frequently are never automatically banned. The company’s idea is to reduce the incidence of harassment, as well as save people the trouble of manually reporting offensive tweets and accounts you don’t want to see and waiting for Twitter moderators to take action.

In this regard, a Twitter official has already told the respected publication Engadget that since the company began testing the feature in September, it has found that some people really need more help to suppress unwanted interactions with their accounts. In the future, the platform’s systems will monitor for possible malicious or unwanted responses altogether, as well as suggest that users in the beta version enable safe mode if the social network considers that the user can benefit from this. So if everything is implemented exactly as Twitter wants, then there will be fewer cases on the platform when people have to endure unwanted interactions with them.