That is what you read. In its bid to create an ultra-utopian society, Twitter has released a brand new feature that will act as the final barrier between you, and someone whose profile may contain sensitive information, a.k.a strong language or graphic media with violence or nudity.
So basically, whenever you visit someone’s profile, you will ushered to a warning message that reads,
“Caution: This profile may include sensitive content.”
Pretty straightforward if you ask me. Whenever you click the link to the profile on Twitter, this message appears in a pop-up window. And, the same message also displays if you visit the profile directly. In fact, the warning message is all that displays until you agree and proceed to view the profile while aware of all the risks.
As far as exactly what constitutes sensitive content, well no one really knows. The company allows content that has violence or nudity, but does not allow pornography or excessive violence in live video, or in your profile image or header image. That kind of complicates things because, sensitive content does not appear to be limited to this.
In fact, sensitive content appears to include stuff like swearing as well. And indeed, users can actually choose to mark themselves as someone who tweets sensitive content through their “Privacy and Safety” settings. So that the next time someone visits your profile, the would be shown the caution. Why would someone mark themselves though?
What’s more, users can now report tweets to Twitter team and if the content of the tweet is found to be sensitive, the content will be labeled accordingly as well. Twitter will also adjust your account setting automatically, so that all your future tweets are marked accordingly.
This particular feature is still being tested and has yet to be rolled out globally. Meanwhile, a lot of seemingly innocent tweets are also coming up with caution messages. Twitter should take care that it doesn’t overdo things in the other direction. After all, everyone hated bad content jumping out at you from every corner on Twitter, however, no one would be particularly happy to have to stave off caution notices from every corner either.
