{"id":321720,"date":"2019-10-01T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T06:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=321720"},"modified":"2019-10-01T08:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T06:33:41","slug":"twitter-now-hides-offensive-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/321720-twitter-now-hides-offensive-messages.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter now hides offensive messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twittersupport\/status\/1178761986961596416?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rolled out<\/a><\/strong> a feature for its Android, iOS, and web platforms that will filter unwanted direct messages (DMs) sent to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>The company originally started <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/316599-twitter-to-test-filter-for-offensive-messages.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testing<\/a><\/strong> the filter in August and has now implemented it across the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users will now have an \u201cadditional messages\u201d folder under \u201cMessage requests\u201d in their inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Should a direct message contain what appears to be suspicious language, spam, or offensive content, it will be diverted to this folder.<\/p>\n<p>A user will then have to go into the \u201cMessage requests\u201d section and tap on \u201cShow additional messages\u201d to view it.<\/p>\n<p>The change means that Twitter users can still interact with people they don\u2019t follow without leaving their inboxes exposed to abuse.<\/p>\n<p>In an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/320727-twitter-launches-controversial-hide-replies-feature-in-the-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">update<\/a><\/strong> delivered earlier this year, Twitter introduced reply moderation, which lets users hide specific responses to their tweets.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts come as Twitter is trying to clamp down on widespread harassment on its social media platform.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/321455-big-changes-to-youtubes-comment-section.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big changes to YouTube\u2019s comment section<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has rolled out a feature that will filter unwanted direct messages (DMs) in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":106057,"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":[61174,61172,405],"class_list":["post-321720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-dms","tag-offensive-messages","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321720"}],"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=321720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}