Coming Soon To Twitter: Self-Censorship And Parental Controls For NSFW Tweets

Twitter might soon start to flag tweets that contain links to material deemed inappropriate or not safe for work.

There’s a new field within Twitter’s API that is titled “possibly_sensitive” that will only surface when any URL contained in a tweet links to content that has been defined as ‘sensitive’.

So here’s the big question: who gets to make that definition?

Well, maybe you. And me. And everybody else. Colour me confident.

The update was revealed by developer Taylor Singletary on the Twitter

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