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Twitter shared a study of the results of more than 200,000 prompts that encouraged people to reconsider whether they wanted to send a reply that could be harmful or offensive.
The social network began experimenting with those prompts in May 2020.
Data scientists Lauren Fratamico and Kathy Yang wrote in a blog post, “We found that prompts influence positive short- and long-term effects on Twitter. We also found that people who are exposed to a prompt are less likely to compose future offensive replies.”
Twitter found that for every 100 tweets where users were prompted to reconsider their reply:
- 69 replies were sent without revision.
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