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Twitter to introduce new function in 2021 to help users identify bots: Blog

| @indiablooms | Dec 18, 2020, at 02:33 pm

Washington/ Sputnik:  Twitter announced on its blog that it will introduce next year a new function to allow users to distinguish between man-run and automated accounts.

"In 2021, we’re planning to build a new account type to distinguish automated accounts from human-run accounts to make it easier for people to know what’s a bot and what’s not," the company said on Thursday.

Accounts that post to Twitter automatically, also called bots, can be used for sharing useful emergency notifications, but may also be a tool for propaganda and disinformation.

Twitter said it will also introduce next year an option whether to preserve so-called "memorial accounts" i.e. accounts of deceased users.

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