Twitter is testing a feature to warn users of potentially heated discussions

[mylesillidge]

Twitter will warn you before you pick a fight online

Twitter has started testing a new feature that will warn users if they are about to engage in a conversation on the platform that could turn ugly.

The company is showing prompts on its Android and iOS apps that give users a heads up if a discussion they are viewing could get heated or intense.

 

[now05ster]

Good. I need more trigger warnings in my life.

 

[borro]

awww

 

[mr_norris]

We need this feature on myBB for the vaccine threads.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Wokeness and special snowflakery to a whole new level.

 

[pinball wizard]

heated discussions​

Too many snowflakes melting?

 

[pinball wizard]

I need more trigger warnings in my life.

I don't. I'm from the school of hard knocks. Vokkol phases me.

 

[Ghost64]

Heat up the battery so they forced to put the phone down!

 

[now05ster]

I don't. I'm from the school of hard knocks. Vokkol phases me.

And that's the best type of schooling.

 

[supersunbird]

I don't. I'm from the school of hard knocks. Vokkol phases me.

Clearly didn't get taught the identify-the-sarcasm-when-you-see-it lesson yet...

 

[supersunbird]

Twitter will warn you before you pick a fight online

Twitter has started testing a new feature that will warn users if they are about to engage in a conversation on the platform that could turn ugly.

The company is showing prompts on its Android and iOS apps that give users a heads up if a discussion they are viewing could get heated or intense.

I thought that was the whole point of being on there?

 

[pinball wizard]

Clearly didn't get taught the identify-the-sarcasm-when-you-see-it lesson yet...

Yeah, as 99% of my posts on this forum bear testament, sarcasm escapes me.

 

[Gatecrasher]

The company is showing prompts on its Android and iOS apps that give users a heads up if a discussion they are viewing could get heated or intense.

Is there an option to block discussions that are NOT heated or intense? Would save me a lot of time.

 

[_TrXtR_]

Ah man. This is a really nice way to cater for a use case having a 'best buddy' android that can say 'ey man I think shits about to go bad'. Too bad it's just for a stupid platform like twitter.

 

[supersunbird]

Ah man. This is a really nice way to cater for a use case having a 'best buddy' android that can say 'ey man I think shits about to go bad'. Too bad it's just for a stupid platform like twitter.

Yeah, would be nice to have this little guy around:

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Twitter will warn you before you pick a fight online

Twitter has started testing a new feature that will warn users if they are about to engage in a conversation on the platform that could turn ugly.

The company is showing prompts on its Android and iOS apps that give users a heads up if a discussion they are viewing could get heated or intense.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Yeah, as 99% of my posts on this forum bear testament, sarcasm escapes me.

 

[pinball wizard]

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I posted it and I was wondering which bear to use and then decided, much like 99% of my posts, that I didn't care enough.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

I don't. I'm from the school of hard knocks. Vokkol phases me.

It would be so much simpler if you can just call someone a p0es on here or the internet in general...and carry on. But the whining and gnashing of teeth always lead to posts being deleted.

 

[MrGray]

Killjoys.

Twitter doesn't understand the real point of itself... s**tposting and trolling.