{"id":185264,"date":"2016-10-31T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=185264"},"modified":"2016-10-31T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:25:42","slug":"twitter-testing-block-words-feature-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/185264-twitter-testing-block-words-feature-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter testing &#8220;block words&#8221; feature &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has reportedly started testing a &#8220;muted words&#8221; feature that will block certain words and phrases on the service, as determined by the user.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/twitter\/2016\/10\/31\/twitter-muted-words-feature\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Next Web<\/strong><\/a>, several iOS users reported having the feature temporarily enabled on their devices. Twitter disabled it soon after it went live, stated the publication.<\/p>\n<p>The feature allowed users to access the blocking settings under the Notifications menu, letting them create a list of words and phrases they do not wish to see.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the feature will likely filter posts and not display them if they contain words a user has blacklisted.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/184934-twitter-killing-vine-apps.html\">Twitter killing Vine apps<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has reportedly started testing a &#8220;muted words&#8221; feature that will block certain words and phrases on the service, as determined by the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,15473,405],"class_list":["post-185264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-block","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185266,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185264\/revisions\/185266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}