Twitter has a series of measures to prevent harassment on the social network. Among them, the possibility of silencing specific words, notifications or entire accounts, in order to prevent the user from reading messages that could harm them. The platform also allows users to be blocked from viewing or interacting with content from the person they are harassing. Sometimes, however, these measures do not seem to be enough. To solve this, the company plans to resort to third-party applications that offer additional and more complete anti-harassment functions.
According to TechCrunch, the possibility of using apps that aim to combat harassment on the social network is part of a test program that Twitter has recently activated with the aim of improving integration with third-party services. The company, in particular, is allowing developers create applications that will appear on the platform when a user performs a specific action.
In the case of anti-bullying apps, they will show up when someone mutes or blocks a Twitter profile.
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Twitter, at the moment, is working with three apps that offer additional anti-bullying features. Block Party, for example, allows you to apply blocking filters to silence and limit those mentions or posts that may contain hate messages. It also allows you to block users who have given retweet either like to publications, among other features.
bodyguard, another of the apps shown on Twitter, is capable of automatically filtering and deleting posts or messages that contain hateful messages. Among them, of racism, homophobia, misogyny or any other type of content related to cyberbullying. moderate, the third application designed to combat harassment on the platform, also limits the content that can affect the user automatically. It also offers the possibility of checking if an account is real or if it is a bot. It also includes shortcuts to user blocking or muting a post or account.
The possibility of accessing third-party applications to combat harassment is one more example of the company’s great interest in making the social network a place where user safety comes first. A few months ago, Twitter announced that it was working on the possibility of including an alert message in those conversations where there may be a lot of division of opinion or even anger. The platform also plans to add matching notices towards users who intend to insult other people.