Twitter Will Punish You If You Break Its Rules and Incite Hatred

Twitter is one of the most used social networks worldwide. It is a unique application in which each user can express absolutely what they want through one or more tweets. In addition, it is one of the main tools from which to obtain information, since on this platform news is disseminated at great speed. There are many functions that Twitter has been implementing over the years to improve the application. The latest: a new way to inform users that their account has been suspended.

Just as you have already introduced the stories or have even tested the “best friends” function (both used in Instagram), now new functions are still included, such as the last one to notify users that they have violated the rules and have seen how their account has been suspended.

Twitter Will Punish You If You Break Its Rules and Incite Hatred

New measures against hate

This new feature is being tested on a small percentage of both iOS and Android users and even web users.

This new method consists in that a tab will appear at the top of these users that will indicate that they cannot retweet, like, or tweet because of their bad behavior in the application.

There are two ways to solve this: in case the account is blocked , our account will return to normal within seven days. On the other hand, in the event that the account has suffered a permanent suspension, the user must appeal directly to Twitter to solve the problem.

Millions of accounts have been deleted

According to the app, affected people only realized this when they discovered that they could neither tweet nor follow new accounts. In the last six months of last year , the platform removed more offensive content than ever thanks to the new mechanisms and policies it implemented against offensive and hate messages.

To give exact figures, the company took action against almost one million users and removed hateful or offensive content from a total of 1.1 million accounts . He even suspended the account of former United States President Donald Trump, fearing that anything he published would further incite violence in the American country.

This is one of the biggest controversies that has always surrounded Twitter, since it has always allowed users to upload any type of content, without any type of filter or censorship . That is why many times hate speeches were produced or that could offend certain groups and Twitter never did anything about it.