Twitter Will Warn You Before You Tweet Anything Potentially Offensive

Among the big three social media platforms, Twitter is frequently seen as the meanest of the lot – filled with hate speech, trolling, profanity, political rage, and more. Twitter itself seems to taken notice and is now rolling out a feature that encourages people to pause before they send something potentially harmful or offensive.

The social media company said it had already been testing the feature last year. After incorporating user feedback and learnings from the tests, Twitter is now launching the feature across iOS and Android, beginning with accounts that have set their language to English.

The feature has apparently gone through quite a bit of improvement. In earlier forms, Twitter said it struggled to capture the nuance in many conversations and frequently couldn’t differentiate between potentially offensive language, sarcasm, and friendly banter. This meant quite a few unnecessary prompts.

So the company made a few adjustments. This includes ensuring that the system takes into account the relationship between the author and replier. So if two accounts follow each other and often reply to each other, there’s a good chance that the language used probably isn’t an issue.

From the tests, Twitter found that the prompts had some moderating effect on what is actually said. If prompted, one-third (34%) of users would revise their initial reply or decide not to send the reply at all. And after being prompted once, people wrote, on average, 11% fewer offensive replies in the future.

Twitter Will Warn You Before You Tweet Anything Potentially Offensive

Among the big three social media platforms, Twitter is frequently seen as the meanest of the lot – filled with hate speech, trolling, profanity, political rage, and more. Twitter itself seems to taken notice and is now rolling out a feature that encourages people to pause before they send something potentially harmful or offensive.

The social media company said it had already been testing the feature last year. After incorporating user feedback and learnings from the tests, Twitter is now launching the feature across iOS and Android, beginning with accounts that have set their language to English.

The feature has apparently gone through quite a bit of improvement. In earlier forms, Twitter said it struggled to capture the nuance in many conversations and frequently couldn’t differentiate between potentially offensive language, sarcasm, and friendly banter. This meant quite a few unnecessary prompts.

So the company made a few adjustments. This includes ensuring that the system takes into account the relationship between the author and replier. So if two accounts follow each other and often reply to each other, there’s a good chance that the language used probably isn’t an issue.

From the tests, Twitter found that the prompts had some moderating effect on what is actually said. If prompted, one-third (34%) of users would revise their initial reply or decide not to send the reply at all. And after being prompted once, people wrote, on average, 11% fewer offensive replies in the future.

Windows 10 Will Soon Warn You If Your NVMe SSD Is About To Fail

Often, it’s not easy to tell if your hard drive or SSD is about to fail. This is especially true for the latter, which can show no symptoms before suddenly failing, taking all your data with it. But soon, Windows 10 will tell you if it detects that your SSD is approaching the end of its life.

Microsoft made the announcement via the Windows Insider Blog that the feature will be making its way to the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20226. That being said, the use of this feature may be limited to NVMe SSDs only. The blog entry says that the feature is “designed to detect hardware abnormalities for NVMe SSDs and notify users with enough time to act”.

If NVMe SSD failure is imminent, you’ll see a pop up notification that says “A storage device may be at risk of failure and requires your attention”. That’s your que to drop everything else and make a backup of your drive. The pop up itself can be clicked to start the process immediately.

You can also manually check your drive’s health by going to (Settings -> System -> Storage -> Manage disks and volumes -> Properties). Here you’ll see the estimated remaining life of your drive written in percentage points. And if failure is imminent, you’ll see a red warning line here as well.

No doubt this is a very useful feature to have on Windows 10. Though it’s a little unfortunate that it only applies to NVMe SSDs. I know I would’ve appreciated something like this for SATA SSDs just two years ago.