{"id":243499,"date":"2021-05-06T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/twitter-will-now-reprimand-you-for-nasty-replies\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T11:23:39","slug":"twitter-will-now-reprimand-you-for-nasty-replies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twitter-will-now-reprimand-you-for-nasty-replies\/","title":{"rendered":"#Twitter will now reprimand you for nasty replies"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Twitter<\/a> will now reprimand you for nasty replies<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re planning to reply \u201cFUCK YOU!\u201d or something similar to a tweet, Twitter will make you think twice \u2014 literally. Starting today, the social network company is rolling out new prompts that aim you to stop from posting mean replies.<\/p>\n

Twitter started this experiment last May with a limited set of users on iOS. Now it\u2019s expanding to\u00a0all users on Android and iOS.<\/p>\n

The company said that this will cover\u00a0potentially harmful or offensive replies\u00a0\u2014 such as insults, strong language, or hateful remarks \u2014 in English for now. If the app<\/a>\u2019s algorithm detects such a\u00a0reply, it\u2019ll ask the user to reconsider sending it. You can delete the tweet or edit your response, but if you\u2019re determined, you can still send the tweet with profanities.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Twitter\u2019s warning prompt for replies with profanities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The firm admitted in the test last year, the algorithm failed to contextually separate a mean reply, sarcasm, and friendly banter. While the team has observed this behavior and made some changes to it, there\u2019s a chance that the algorithm might get it wrong. In that case, you can tap on the \u201cDid we get this wrong?\u201d link to submit your feedback.<\/p>\n

Twitter also considers if\u00a0you and the person you\u2019re sending your reply to interact frequently, to gauge if the reply is mean or just meant as a joke.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Submitting feedback if Twitter\u2019s algorithm for mean reply detection gets is wrong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twitter said that this method of prompting yielded encouraging results in its tests as 34% of people decided to alter or delete their replies.<\/p>\n

That also means that 66% of people still decided to send it. Plus, there are ways to modify words and fool the algorithm into thinking that it\u2019s a clean reply. And it doesn\u2019t cover languages other than English, so if anyone\u2019s multilingual, they can get away with abusive replies.<\/p>\n

Despite all these hiccups, Twitter\u2019s new feature is a positive step in reducing toxicity on the platform if it can bring down hateful comments by just a few notches.<\/span><\/p>\n

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