Twitter now lets you place content warnings on individual tweets

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All users will have access to the content warning feature. The feature lets you hide individual photos and videos behind warnings for nudity, violence, and sensitive content, rather than adding a blanket warning to all multimedia. It's available on the web and in the app stores.

Users can put a content warning on posts by adding a photo or video and then hitting a flag icon that will bring up other options. You can tag multiple warnings for an individual piece of media, and you can add a warning to one image or video in a tweet but not another, although in the latter case, it appears that there is a single warning over both of them.

The option to add one-time sensitive content warnings to photos and videos you Tweet is now available for everyone across Android, iOS, and web.



To add a content warning, tap the flag icon when editing the photo/video after you've attached it to your Tweet.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 25, 2022

You can click on the media to view it, but you can't put warnings on the text. The warning doesn't appear in embedded apps. There is no category for the movies that people want to avoid.

Content warnings are framed as a way to let people avoid engaging with potentially upsetting or not-safe-for-work material. Members of other platforms have used them in more complex ways. Mastodon allows users to write freeform content warnings that can be applied to text or multimedia messages, which can be used as an informal tagging system for posts. The system is limited by comparison, but it is more versatile than its predecessor and you could still hide it in a pinch.