When it comes to Twitter’s tool, however, all users will be able to block unwanted tweets based on specific words or phrases.
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As such, the in-development anti-harassment tool will not only let Twitter users combat abuse on the social network, but will also enable them to block hashtags they are exhausted of reading about.
Whereas Instagram’s all-encompassing filter is applied to keywords designated as offensive by the company, Twitter’s new tool will reportedly allow for customization.
It may be hard to predict how the users’ experience will change after the implementation of the anti-harassment tool. The company has heavily been criticized for its inability to effectively protect its users from abusive posts.
Twitter has struggled to find a technological solution to the turmoil that can result from the product’s core feature: anyone can publicly say anything to anyone else. Because of the subsequent violence, many celebrities and journalists have chosen to renounce at their Twitter accounts.
Quite a number of celebrities and other users have been seen leaving the famous social networking platform – Twitter (TWTR) – very recently due to allegations of harassment. The report said that Twitter has been internally discussing the tool “for a year”, yet since it has not been made public, it will be hard to say when or if the product will be rolled out. This year, the company made several small steps in asking users to identify the offending tweets in their complaint reports.
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The idea of keywords identification will likely be similar to how Instagram uses comment moderation tool but the major issue would be that when people will get to know, they can outsmart the tool by deliberately misspelling the words. Still, trolls could attempt to outsmart the filter by deliberately misspelling words or coming up with new ways to deliver their insults.
