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.

Eat unwashed ass, @Jack. https://t.co/EeFgo703XM

— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 5, 2020

Jack Dorsey likes to pee into his own butthole https://t.co/GjXsXtslru

— Listen to onbeliefpod & @ongriefpodcast Li'l 🌳 (karengeier) May 5, 2020

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.

I will watch my fucking language when twitter bans the fucking Nazis https://t.co/zQBjyMRBQx

— 🚩Auntie Shepherd🏴 (@NeolithicSheep) May 5, 2020

how the fuck will this fix the Nazi problem 🥴 https://t.co/7aPx6FURXh

— Same Old Karen From The Block (@IWriteAllDay_) May 5, 2020

how the fuck will this fix the Nazi problem 🥴 https://t.co/7aPx6FURXh

— Same Old Karen From The Block (@IWriteAllDay_) May 5, 2020

I'll ask Twitter to do something about fucking white supremicists, sexual harassers, anti-vaxxers, and people who misuse "cache" and "cachet" before sending my fucking tweets. We'll see who gets an answer first. https://t.co/0Pl9gJB8I7

— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) May 5, 2020

So far, the feature seems to be doing a bang-up job.

ooo twitter warns you now when you’re abt to say smth controversial 🤭 so twitter was it the as$ or the s!apping that’s a bad word? pic.twitter.com/KyDn7qSXl3

— 𝗁𝖺𝗇🃏 (@lipjikook) May 6, 2020