Twitter has rolled out a brand new TikTok-like Explore tab for customers in a restricted variety of international locations. The tab will assist customers rapidly take a look at the highest trending content material on the platform. Apart from that, Twitter has additionally introduced that it’s testing one-time warnings for customers on the images and movies they share. This characteristic is presently accessible to solely a small variety of customers. The one-time warning characteristic permits customers to flag their put up with Nudity, Violence, or Sensitive labels. Prior to this, customers needed to mark all their posts as delicate. Twitter has additionally talked about in a current weblog put up that they’re testing out an overhauled “human-first” method to reporting content material.

Twitter carried out a restricted rollout of the brand new Explore tab on December 8. The Explore tab is now divided into ‘Trending’ and ‘For You’ sections. Many customers have identified the structure resembles that of TikTok. It can also be purported to operate equally, the place customers merely must swipe for brand spanking new content material. This characteristic is presently accessible in some international locations for many who use Twitter in English on Android and iOS.

Along with the Explore tab, Twitter Safety shared a put up on December 8 introducing the one-time warning characteristic. Twitter mentions within the put up that it’s conscious that individuals use the platform to debate the happenings of the world, “which sometimes means sharing unsettling or sensitive content.” This characteristic was introduced after Twitter had talked about in an earlier weblog put up that it’s making an attempt a brand new human-first approach to reporting content material. It is being designed to simplify the reporting course of for customers. This method is presently being examined with a small userbase within the United States and is anticipated to be made broadly accessible subsequent 12 months.

Twitter has been onerous at work making an attempt to reform its platform however not all of the adjustments have gone down easily. It had just lately up to date its image permission coverage to sort out on-line abuse. However, this coverage change enabled far-right teams to protect themselves from scrutiny and harass anti-racism advocates on Twitter. Twitter has since then accepted that its “enforcement teams made several errors” and is internally reviewing the coverage change.