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Twitter readying NSFW option for posting images
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Twitter has told developers that new tools have been given to their API that allows users to flag content in tweets as sensitive, or NSFW. The option seems to be a two-way street, allowing the poster of the original image or those who view the image to flag it. I usually don’t see a whole lot of NSFW images on Twitter, but then again I may be using it wrong.
Twitter blogged this on the subject:
“Beginning today you may notice a new boolean field in API responses & streams containing tweets: “possibly_sensitive”. This new field will only surface when a tweet contains a link. The meaning of the field doesn’t pertain to the tweet content itself, but instead it is an indicator that the URL contained in the tweet may contain content or media identified as sensitive content. During this initial testing phase, there’s nothing you need to do with this field and the field values cannot be relied on for accuracy. In the future, we’ll have a family of additional API methods & fields for handling end-user “media settings” and possibly sensitive content.”
The idea is a simple one, and a welcomed one at that because no one wants to be hunched over their computer at work, clicking a link, only to be brought to a page with people’s special parts being flapped all in your face while you frantically try to find the close button on your browser before your boss or co-workers get a glance — This guy knows what I’m talking about.
