There are many situations, like the current war between Russia and Ukraine, where journalists and even locals are sharing pictures of the ground reality and some of those pictures are very graphic and definitely not for the faint-hearted. Being an open public platform, users are allowed post pictures of all kinds on Twitter and the moment they hit the publish button, these pictures will reside on the platform for the world to see.
Sensitive pictures can actually offer a lot of insight into what really is happening at that particular location and sometimes, these very photos and videos offer the actual truth rather than the glossed-over versions that we see on many news outlets. If you have such a picture or video that you want to share on Twitter, but you don’t want to cause trauma amongst the faint-hearted, a nice little feature that you can use is the content warning overlay. What this does is that it puts a content warning on top of your picture and only when the person in question chooses to see the photo or video, is the content actually revealed.
In this tutorial, we are going to show how you can use the content warning on Twitter while posting sensitive images.
Step 1. Open Twitter and start composing a Tweet.
Step 2. Click on the Media button to start adding photos or videos to the Tweet.
Step 3. The file manager will now open where you can browse through the content of your PC and select the photo or video that you want to share.
Step 4. Once you select the photo/video, you will see a preview page on Twitter where you can make changes to the content. Here, click on the ‘Edit’ button.
Step 5. In the preview window, click on the ‘Flag icon’ to head to the content warning section.
Step 6. Check the boxes that best describe the nature of sensitivity of the photo/video that you are sharing. You can pick more than one option here.
Once you are happy with your selection, simply click on the Tweet button and your tweet will be live on the platform. However, when people come across your tweet, they will receive the content warning screen and only when they click on the reveal button, will they be able to see the content that you want to share.
This is a great feature in our opinion and every media house and individual should make use of this while sharing content that is not exactly to be viewed openly and by everyone on the platform.
