Twitter Is Now Suspending And Marking Accounts WithOut Warnings

Twitter is trying to much to tackle troll problem in 2017, and the campaign is not without problems.  In addition to a range of tools aimed at filtering abusive tweets, the platform now appears to be quietly marking entire accounts as sensitive, or suspending accounts without notice or warning. 

Is this new? Not entirely. Twitter asks that users tweeting images containing violence or nudity flag that in settings. And while users have long been able to request specific media be marked as sensitive in Twitter’s safety settings, scrutiny like this are unusual.

Among the programs Twitter has introduced in 2017 is a function that removes tweets containing “potentially sensitive content” from search results.

It’s also rolled out a 12-hour time out for accounts it believes are engaged in abusive behaviour, but it does notify users if they’ve been hit with the red card.

Marking entire accounts as sensitive, especially one that’s verified, appears to be a new step. In the case of the 12-hour suspension, accounts are detected by patterns of behaviour and not just potentially offensive keywords.