Safe Mode has started working in various countries and will be arriving in ours soon too. This is a function that can affect you even if you don’t activate it.

In September last year we started to discover what Safe Mode looks like that Twitter wants its social network to be a less aggressive space. Now it has started to offer this feature in some English speaking countries in such a way that it sure is soon will also reach the rest.

To understand what it is, there is nothing better than going to twitter website. Even though it wasn’t available, they already explained it clearly. Social network “seeking behavior potentially abusive or spammy, such as harmful language, negative and repeated feedback, and unsolicited mentions. Twitter flags the account and automatically blocks it from responding to your Tweets.”

This is not set by default. When available, users will be able to activate it from their account settings, but also will be offered “from a proactive notification sent by Twitter when we notice that some of the Tweets you’ve received appear to be causing unwanted attention or interaction.”

Accounts that Twitter says should be blocked by anyone checking this option will remain blocked for at least 7 days. It won’t be definitive.

This time we’re not talking about the functionality that will take a long time to arrive and a major deployment has already been announced on Twitter in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, according to Engadget.

Accounts that users follow or interact with on a regular basis will not be banned, but the rest may fall into this limbo. It is more, any user who has a dispute or behavior that the algorithm finds inappropriate. This implies that Twitter will analyze all users for this purpose.

In the end, on Twitter they want you reduce hate and verbal abuse experienced on social networksthat’s why they will enable this and other options, to try to make it a more pleasant environment.