Twitter is Testing New Prompts to Help You Avoid Getting Into Fights #Twars on The Platform

Twitter has announced that it’s testing new prompts on iOS and Android that warn before you jump into a conversation that could get heated. In one example, there’s a prompt dropped right into a conversation in progress that says “conversations like this can be intense.” In another, which seems like it appears if you try to reply to one of those intense conversations, is titled “let’s look out for each other” and lays out three bullet points to encourage empathetic and fact-based conversations.

Twitter can be a great place to get the latest news and follow lively debates, but fights and intense debates are also just a tweet away. This can become problematic for some people, especially when it involves burning topics since all it takes is a heated tweet for the conversation to spiral downwards.

You can get a look at the prompts in the tweet below:

This is not the first time that Twitter has used prompts to tone down the harassment on its platform. Earlier, the social media service had come out with a feature to ask users to review their tweets before posting them if they contained “harmful or offensive content”. According to Twitter, in a test, 34% of the users involved went back to check their reply or did not reply at all.

Additionally, in an attempt to control the spread of misinformation, Twitter had also started prompting users to read articles before retweeting them. The additional step required should help Twitter tone down some of these glaring problems that its platform currently faces, but the growing list of prompts also underlines the fact that these issues are becoming a significant problem for user experience on the service.

Again, the best way to avoid these issues is to not tweet at all if you are unsure about something.