Health & Safety
Health & Safety
Learn about safety tools, resources, and tips for healthier conversations.
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Whether you’re building a Community, hosting a Twitter Space, or growing your following posting about the next big idea, we’re committed to giving you the tools you need to use Twitter on your own terms.
Learn more about how we're committed to providing context and transparency around the content you see and share on Twitter while keeping you safe.
How do I protect my account from harmful content and unwanted interactions?
How do I protect my account from harmful content and unwanted interactions?
Twitter is committed to making it easy to report unwanted or unhealthy content. If abusive behavior happens, we want to make it easy for people to report it to us. Multiple Tweets can be included in the same report, helping us gain better context while investigating the issues to get them resolved faster.
How to report abusive content on Twitter
You can proactively label Tweets that may contain sensitive content — from violence to graphic media — and customize the content you see on Twitter.
Understand your media settings
Conversation settings give you the option of who can reply to your Tweet – everyone, only people you follow, or only people you mention. You can also remove yourself from unwanted conversations with Unmentions, and choose to Tweet to a smaller crowd with newly released Twitter Circle.
Learn more about conversation settings
Taking the extra step to protect your account is always a good idea. You can protect your account — from a strong password to two-factor authentication — to help deliver peace of mind.
How do I make sure what I read and share on Twitter isn’t fake or false?
How do I make sure what I read and share on Twitter isn’t fake or false?
We work to proactively identify and label misleading content so you can have greater context and clarity around the information you see and share. We work to elevate factual information across our platform including context to explain why a Topic is trending and provide transparency around claims that have been confirmed to be false by independent, subject-matter experts..
How Twitter addresses misinformation
Automated accounts, often referred to as “bots,” perform programmed actions through the Twitter API. Examples of automated accounts you might see on Twitter include bots that help you find vaccine appointments and disaster early warning systems. Developers who run bot accounts have the option to apply a automated account label to help you identify if an account is a bot or not.
Out of hundreds of millions of Tweets a day, Moments surface the best of what’s happening on Twitter. We aim to uphold high standards of accuracy, impartiality, and fairness in our curation. Moments are intended to feature compelling, original, and diverse content. When selecting Tweets and video for a Moment, we consider the content and media as well as the avatar and username of the poster.
What is Twitter doing to make conversations healthier and more inclusive?
What is Twitter doing to make conversations healthier and more inclusive?
We want everyone to feel safe to participate in the public conversation. Anonymity, besides providing safety, gives people the ability to be flexible about how they present themselves. From using in-product nudges to encourage healthy interactions with others to using procedural justice frameworks in reporting, we’re committed to building inclusivity, fairness, and transparency into our products.
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How to use conversation settings on Twitter
Since your Tweet = your space, we want to give you more control over the conversations you start by choosing who can reply to your Tweets.
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