Twitter has announced that it will be adding a new tweek to its current API for developers that will allow tweets that are maybe sensitive to others to me marked as NSFW.
Users will be given the ability to mark their own tweets as sensitive and filter any sensitive tweets out their timeline should they wish, users will also be able to tag other peoples tweets that you may find of a sensitive nature, which will then be reviewed by twitter who will decide if they are or not.
This is a smart move for Twitter as it becomes more mainstream and a popular social media platform for media distribution, it will also be important for users in an office environment who don’t welcome sensitive tweets.
“Beginning today you may notice a new boolean field in API responses & streams containing tweets: “possibly_sensitive”. This new field will only surface when a tweet contains a link. The meaning of the field doesn’t pertain to the tweet content itself, but instead it is an indicator that the URL contained in the tweet may contain content or media identified as sensitive content. During this initial testing phase, there’s nothing you need to do with this field and the field values cannot be relied on for accuracy. In the future, we’ll have a family of additional API methods & fields for handling end-user “media settings” and possibly sensitive content.”
Initially the functionality will only be available on Twitter.com however will come to 3rd party applications later.
Matthew Marley
360innovate
