{"id":406773,"date":"2020-06-11T08:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=406773"},"modified":"2020-06-11T08:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:48:47","slug":"twitter-to-ask-users-to-read-articles-before-retweeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/406773\/twitter-to-ask-users-to-read-articles-before-retweeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to ask users to read articles before retweeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Inc will prompt some users to click links to other websites before retweeting them, part of an effort to discourage the spread of misinformation and foster more thoughtful communication on its social network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSharing an article can spark conversation, so you may want to read it before you Tweet it,\u201d the company said in a tweet Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The prompt will only apply to Twitter users on the Android mobile operating system for now. The San Francisco-based company is experimenting with other ways to improve user interactions on the service &#8211; it\u2019s also running a test where it will ask users to reconsider before they send vulgar tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey promoted the feature with a tweet of his own. \u201cDid you read the article you\u2019re about to spread?\u201d he posted along with the announcement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sharing an article can spark conversation, so you may want to read it before you Tweet it.<\/p>\n<p>To help promote informed discussion, we&#8217;re testing a new prompt on Android \u2013\u2013 when you Retweet an article that you haven&#8217;t opened on Twitter, we may ask if you&#8217;d like to open it first.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/1270783537667551233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At least one high-profile user likes the idea: Tesla Inc and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, whom Dorsey has said is his favorite tweeter. \u201cGreat point,\u201d Musk tweeted Wednesday in response to Dorsey\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany articles are retweeted based on headlines that don\u2019t match the content.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/398295\/faster-internet-coming-to-south-africa-with-facebooks-1-billion-subsea-cable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faster internet coming to South Africa with Facebook\u2019s $1 billion subsea cable<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Inc will prompt some users to click links to other websites before retweeting them, part of an effort to discourage the spread of misinformation and foster more thoughtful communication on its social network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":258271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,93],"class_list":["post-406773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406799,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406773\/revisions\/406799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}