Twitter is making the content warning function, which it tested last year, available to all of its users. Instead than applying a blanket warning to all multimedia tweets, the functionality allows you to disguise particular photographs and videos behind warnings for nudity, violence, and “sensitive” content. It is accessible through Twitter’s Android and iOS mobile applications, as well as its web client.
Posts can be marked with a content warning by including a photo or video, touching to edit it, and then clicking the flag symbol, which will bring up the options indicated above. You can tag numerous warnings for a single piece of material, and you can add a warning to one image or video in a tweet but not another — although, in the latter situation, Twitter appears to place a single warning over both of the images or videos in the same tweet.
As with the previous system, users can choose to watch material by clicking on the “Show” button, and you cannot include warnings in the text of tweets. So far, the warning does not appear in embedded tweets or in third-party tools such as TweetDeck.
Because content warnings are intended to prevent people from engaging with potentially distressing or unfit-for-work information, they are classified into the following categories. Members of other platforms, on the other hand, have employed them in more complex ways. Content warnings can be written in freeform on the decentralised social network Mastodon, and these warnings can be applied to text or multimedia messages, thereby serving as a form of informal tagging system for posts. Even if Twitter’s method is still limited in contrast to its predecessor, it is more versatile than its predecessor — and you could still use it to conceal spoilers in a pinch.
