Twitter is expanding the access of 'Safety Mode' in other English speaking markets

Twitter is one of the most popular microblogging sites in the world, and toxicity and abuse are one of the most common problems on the platform currently. The company had rolled out the ‘Safety Mode’ feature last year in September which was available for only a small group of testers; however, from today onwards, more users from different parts of the globe such as UK, US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland will get access to the beta version of Twitter’s ‘Safety Mode’ feature.

The company has said that expanding the access of this beta test will help them in knowing how good this new ‘Safety Mode’ feature is working and they will also get to know the improvements they are required to make in this feature. Twitter also said that this feature would prompt the users whenever they are required to activate this feature. Twitter is a public social platform and that is why conversation health is the main concern for them and the company has rolled out a few updates to fix these issues in the past as well. The updates that were rolled out earlier include the features that would automatically hide the insulting and unpleasant replies on the platform, allow the users to put a limit for replies and even warn the users that the conversation is heading towards an unpleasant direction.

The new ‘Safety Mode’ is different from these previously launched features as it is more of a defensive tool for the users. When you activate the ‘Safety Mode’, it automatically blocks the accounts for seven days which are replying or commenting using harmful language. Accounts on twitter using hateful remarks or mentions will be blocked to protect other users from insults and embarrassments.

The algorithm of Twitter detects the accounts who are using bad and harmful language to reply or comment and it blocks them temporarily or permanently. If the original poster interacts with a user who is commenting on the former’s post then the user who has commented won’t be blocked. The new ‘Safety Mode’ was tested by 750 users previously and now it has been rolled out to more users as well. The company hasn’t confirmed when it is going to launch this feature globally for every user yet.