Twitter is rolling out a “content warning feature” that it tested last year. This time, to all accounts. With this, you can hide specific photographs and videos rather than a general warning for all multimedia tweets. It is accessible through Twitter’s Android and iOS mobile applications, as well as its web version.
In order to add a content warning to a post, simply upload an image or video and then use the flag symbol to bring up the options indicated above. When tweeting an image or video, you can add a warning to one but not the other. You can also tag multiple warnings for a single piece of media. Twitter appears to put a single warning over both of them, but this isn’t the case.
In the same way as before, people can click “Show” to see the media, but you can’t put warnings in the tweet text. So far, the warning does not appear in embedded tweets or in third-party tools such as TweetDeck. And, unfortunately, there is no category for the type of tweets that people would like to avoid the most.
Content warnings are intended to help consumers avoid potentially distressing or unsuitable content. In contrast, members of other social media platforms have employed them in more complex ways. Mastodon, a decentralized social network, allows users to create freeform content warnings that may be applied to text or video messages.
Content warnings can be written in freeform on the decentralized social network Mastodon, and these warnings can be applied to text or multimedia messages, thereby serving as a form of an informal tagging system for posts. Even if Twitter’s method is still limited in contrast to its predecessor, it is more versatile than its predecessor — and you could still use it to conceal content in a situation.
