Twitter tests telling users their tweet replies may be offensive

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Twitter tests telling users their tweet replies may be offensive

In an effort to clean up conversations on the social media platform.

Twitter Inc will test sending users a prompt when they reply to a tweet using "offensive or hurtful language," in an effort to clean up conversations on the social media platform, the company said in a tweet on Tuesday. When users hit "send" on their reply, they will be told if the words in ...

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