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Twitter CEO Hints At New Features At Center For Technology Innovation

Twitter is working at curbing trolling and implementing a live event tools to highlight important moments.

 

Talking at a moderated panel meet at the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo shared a few new upcoming features on what the Twitter team is working on presently. While he didn't give out full details, here are the features that you can expect, hopefully soon:

"DVR Mode" On Twitter
The 'DVR Mode' works something like this: If you have missed the live broadcast of a television event (the Olympics opening ceremony for instance) and you are watching the event on let' say YouTube, you can then search for the tweets sent at the original time of broadcast.

How this is helpful for you? Well, if you stay in India, most of the time you miss the live broadcast of US-based award shows such as the Academy Awards, Grammys, or the Emmys. So when you are watching repeat broadcast in the evening, you do not have to scroll back through your Twitter feed to see what your favourite celebrity had to say about the event. You just use the DVR mode to check out the conversation.

Keeping The Noise But Highlighting The Key Moments
With live event tweets, Twitter is trying new methods to highlight the key moments at a particular event. Costolo illustrated how Twitter had tried to bring important tweets from athletes and news commentators associated with the London Olympics to its users, but the service failed to keep the 'roar of the crowd' alive.

And how is this helpful to you? You get a clearer picture of what users have to say. When you try to find tweets associated with a live event, you not only get the voice of influential people, but also the voice of a common man. 

Efforts To Remove Trolls And Abusers From Your News Feed
Twitter has become the home for celebrities, and often they face obscene tweets, laced with crude abuses and cuss words. So taking this into account, Costolo has said that Twitter team is experimenting on techniques to filter out "egregious, obvious harassment".

If you are a celebrity then, you do not have to deal with those nasty tweets, and really affects popular people badly. Take Rajdeep Sardesai for instance, (@sardesairajdeep) as he has to constantly keep blocking trolls from his profile.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Hints At Upcoming Features At Center for Technology Innovation


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