Twitter to make it more difficult for users to send ‘mean’ tweets

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Twitter announced on Wednesday that it is launching new prompts for tweets that are mean or hurtful to encourage users to think twice before posting them. The effort signals the latest effort by the social media giant to decrease certain content they say users don’t want to see.

The platform said it was introducing prompts asking users to “pause and reconsider a potentially harmful or offensive reply before they hit send.”

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