Wed 12 October 2022:
Twitter is requesting users to confirm their birthdates before viewing sensitive content in an effort to stop minors from viewing inappropriate material.
TechCrunch reports that the microblogging platform is gradually introducing a feature to limit private tweets to users who are at least 18 years old and have a birthdate associated with their accounts.
“We are constantly iterating on our work to give people more choice and control over their experience, as well as to make Twitter safer for everyone,” a company spokesperson was quoted as saying.
“We are slowly rolling out a feature to aid in restricting certain sensitive content from people who are under 18 years old or have not submitted their date of birth.”
Several users noted that the microblogging platform had asked them to mention their birthdates for seeing specific tweets over the past few days.
The platform did not clarify if it is rolling out the feature globally. Plus, users have raised questions about the company’s privacy practices, as the prompt to enter the birthdate to access sensitive content says the data might be used for targeted ads.
Excessive gore, graphic violence, explicit content, and images that promote hatred are just a few of the broad categories that Twitter’s sensitive content policy covers.
Although the organization doesn’t forbid explicit content, it does ask users who upload it to mark it as sensitive and change their account settings appropriately.
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