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| Twitter announces the global launch of the Community Comments feature |
Twitter announced yesterday (Sunday) that the community feedback feature will be available to users around the world after it was introduced in the United States last semester.
Community Feedback, formerly known as Birdwatch, is a fact-checking system widely used by social media platforms, such as Wikipedia and Reddit, to rate and display content.
Community feedback aims to provide all Twitter users with the information needed to add context to potentially misleading tweets, Twitter said.
Contributors can comment on any Tweet, and if enough contributors with different viewpoints find the comment useful, it will appear publicly within the Tweet.
"Now people around the world can see and rate comments, which helps ensure that comments are helpful to users from a different perspective," Twitter said in a tweet about the global launch.
Twitter maintains that this process is straightforward and transparent, which is why it has opened up its community feedback algorithm and posted it on GitHub, along with its supporting data, for anyone to review, analyze or suggest improvements to.
Twitter said of the feature: “Community comments do not reflect the views of Twitter and may not be edited or changed by any of our teams. Tweets containing community comments will not be labeled, deleted, or modified by Twitter. They are processed unless they violate the Twitter Rules or Terms of Service.” or our Privacy Policy.Failure to comply with the law may result in an individual being denied access to Community Comments and/or other remedies.
Anyone can report comments they believe violate these laws by selecting the three-dot menu under Comments and then selecting Report.
A few weeks ago, community feedback received an update that the company says will help identify "low quality" comments. As a result, more contributors who write useless comments lose the opportunity to contribute.
Shortly after Elon Musk's takeover, Twitter renamed its Birdfinder feature to community feedback, which the new CEO sees as key to Twitter's future moderation, believing it would change the deal to drive traffic to Twitter. . Accuracy."
The original idea behind Community Comments was to create a system that would add a layer of fact-checking and context to Tweets that didn't necessarily violate the Twitter Rules. But in Musk's age, the feature could play a bigger role now that Twitter has reduced the number of content moderators after laying off most of its staff.
Community feedback picked up steam when Twitter officially relaunched its monthly subscription feature, Twitter Blue, which is now available for $8 per month for web users and $11 for iOS users.