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October 17, 2018 05:32 pm GMT

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.

Shame! Shame! Shame!

Shame! Shame! Shame!

Image: Twitter

The message will appear both at the URL of the original tweet, and on the tweeter's profile. 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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