Twitter Gets Blowback After Testing Profanity Warning
Twitter, notoriously prone to flirting with features nobody wants, has trotted out yet another well-intentioned feature that instantly caused outrage among its userbase.
On Tuesday, Twitter announced it was testing out a feature that would allow users to reconsider replies that included profanity, lest they say something that might result in them getting suspended.
What followed was a completely predictable, expletive-laden backlash that mostly involved users telling Twitter things it could do to itself.
Others were all-too-ready to remind Twitter that it often does not address its widespread problem with hate speech and nazis using its platform.
So far, the feature seems to be doing a bang-up job.
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