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Twitter said on Wednesday that it is expanding its last-year-launched Birdwatch community fact-checking programme with a number of new features. Users of the Birdwatch application post notes to tweets to provide context and additional information as well as indicate tweets that may be deceptive. Now that it has been discovered, the social media platform is implementing a new onboarding procedure for the programme. Additionally, Twitter will make notes more visible in order to further the apparent good that Birdwatch has been doing for the neighbourhood.
On Wednesday, Twitter said in a blog post that it is implementing a new onboarding procedure designed to encourage contributors to write and rate messages thoughtfully.
The Impact Score of new members will begin at zero and will gradually improve depending on whether they rate other notes as helpful or not. Users will be able to create their own notes once they have raised their Impact Score to five. Writing Not Helpful notes repeatedly, however, will prevent the contributor from adding new notes.
Twitter wants to increase the number of contributors it works with and is launching a new onboarding procedure to do so. For the Birdwatch initiative, it intends to routinely accept sizable numbers of qualified applications and track the results of a bigger basis.
In the upcoming weeks, Twitter will also increase the visibility of notes on public tweets. More tweets that Birdwatch deems helpful will be shown to US users.
