{"id":201014,"date":"2017-03-01T18:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201014"},"modified":"2017-03-01T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:20:21","slug":"twitter-launches-new-filtering-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/201014-twitter-launches-new-filtering-options.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter launches new filtering options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2017\/our-latest-update-on-safety\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter is continuing the fight against abuse<\/strong><\/a> on the platform with new features to remove abusive comments.<\/p>\n<p>The company is introducing new filtering options to give users more control over what they see from certain types of accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people requested more filter options for their notifications, and we\u2019re excited to bring these to everyone on Twitter,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is also expanding the mute feature to build on the work it did in November, which lets users remove certain keywords, phrases, or entire conversations from their notifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, you\u2019ll be able to mute from your home timeline and you can decide how long this content is muted \u2013 one day, one week, one month, or indefinitely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said it is also working to &#8220;identify accounts as they\u2019re engaging in abusive behaviour, even if this behaviour hasn\u2019t been reported to us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, we\u2019re taking action by limiting certain account functionality for a set amount of time, such as allowing only their followers to see their Tweets,&#8221; said Twitter.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/199180-twitter-stops-notifications-from-people-youve-blocked.html\">Twitter stops notifications from people you\u2019ve blocked<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is continuing the fight against abuse on the platform with new features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":138684,"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":[405],"class_list":["post-201014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201014"}],"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=201014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201038,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201014\/revisions\/201038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}