Twitter now lets you place content warnings on individual tweets
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#5WH5H)
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Twitter is giving all users access to the content warning feature it tested last year. The feature lets you obscure individual photos and videos behind warnings for nudity, violence, and sensitive" content, rather than adding a blanket warning to all multimedia tweets. It's available on Twitter's Android and iOS apps as well as its web client.
Users can put a content warning on posts by adding a photo or video, tapping to edit it, and then hitting a flag icon that will bring up the options listed above. You can tag multiple warnings for an individual piece of media, and you can add a warning to one image or video in a tweet but not another - although in the latter case, Twitter appears to place a single warning over both of them.
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