Twitter will publicly shame users until they delete their bad tweets

There’s nothing like a little public pressure to get someone to clean up their act.

Twitter announced a change on Wednesday that will make it clear when someone has posted a tweet that violates Twitter’s terms of service. 

Now, when Twitter has determined that a Tweet has crossed the line, a gray box with a message will appear, in place of the original tweet, that reads “This tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.” It will also include a link to Twitter’s terms.

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The message will appear both at the URL of the original tweet, and on the tweeter’s profile. And it will remain up for 14 days after the user deletes the offending Tweet. So anyone who visits your Twitter profile might see that you posted a message that someone else successfully reported. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Twitter will publicly shame users until they delete their bad tweets