Twitter Tests Spam Removal
Micro-blogging sites are now giving fierce competition with the introduction of innovative platforms, highly secured privacy settings to promote communication all around the world. Generally, it refers to the online broadcasting path where people keep posting their views in packages of small elements, images, videos which have gained popularity as micro-posts. These are very useful to the society as they encourage topics that need to be discussed and circulated but at the same time might give rise to issues involving privacy, security and an amalgam of cultures making it challenging to handle. Although many crucial steps and security measures have been undertaken still, this world has become so advanced that it has the potential for exposure of sensitive information leading to various unwanted situations.
And Twitter is one such social networking site which is globally acknowledged and comes in the top list where people communicate via exchanging some powerful "tweets" which has the power to influence the community to a great extent. An easy to use platform, which is quite popular among the influential people as well!
Apart from having the public messages, it also includes an option of "direct messages" where people can send private messages to each in case, they follow them. So now Twitter is again in the top headlines for some of the necessary it has brought for the users simultaneously making people gain more faith in it.
An announcement made by Twitter recently has created a stir in the broadcasting platform saying that "Unwanted messages aren't fun. So, we're testing a filter in your DM requests to keep those out of sight, out of mind." And those upcoming changes include the following:
- So, it has decided to create a new tab 'Message Requests', under which the messages categorized as spam will be kept separately. This new filter is being applied to test the spam and offensive messages from the direct message inbox. For this reason, Twitter has allowed its users to keep their DM inbox open to receive all kinds of messages from unknown people also so that it can know the capability of its newly-built innovation.
- The Direct Message inbox will also include a search tool and the iOS Live photos in the form of GIFs.
- This newly added feature will help users to search any message by the name of a specific person or via the profile name in the search bar and possibly by a Twitter handle.
Around the last month, this popular site had invested in redesigning its desktop interface. It is also following up with a newly featured plan where people can subscribe to the tweet discussion option where they can be easily notified in case of any replies.
Every social platform has its pros and cons but with proper management and developing plans using which it can be secured to a great extent. These types of the medium have always been a source of knowledge, entertainment, spreading awareness among the society to know what is happening around the world and hence, it is our duty to make proper use of these platforms.
