Windows 10: New behavioral analysis tools to fight unwanted content on Twitter

Brink · May 16, 2018

In March, we introduced our new approach to improve the health of the public conversation on Twitter. One important issue we’ve been working to address is what some might refer to as “trolls.” Some troll-like behavior is fun, good and humorous. What we’re talking about today are troll-like behaviors that distort and detract from the public conversation on Twitter, particularly in communal areas like conversations and search. Some of these accounts and Tweets violate our policies, and, in those cases, we take action on them. Others don’t but are behaving in ways that distort the conversation.

To put this in context, less than 1% of accounts make up the majority of accounts reported for abuse, but a lot of what’s reported does not violate our rules. While still a small overall number, these accounts have a disproportionately large – and negative – impact on people’s experience on Twitter. The challenge for us has been: how can we proactively address these disruptive behaviors that do not violate our policies but negatively impact the health of the conversation?

A New Approach

Today, we use policies, human review processes, and machine learning to help us determine how Tweets are organized and presented in communal places like conversations and search. Now, we’re tackling issues of behaviors that distort and detract from the public conversation in those areas by integrating new behavioral signals into how Tweets are presented. By using new tools to address this conduct from a behavioral perspective, we’re able to improve the health of the conversation, and everyone’s experience on Twitter, without waiting for people who use Twitter to report potential issues to us.

There are many new signals we’re taking in, most of which are not visible externally. Just a few examples include if an account has not confirmed their email address, if the same person signs up for multiple accounts simultaneously, accounts that repeatedly Tweet and mention accounts that don’t follow them, or behavior that might indicate a coordinated attack. We’re also looking at how accounts are connected to those that violate our rules and how they interact with each other.

These signals will now be considered in how we organize and present content in communal areas like conversation and search. Because this content doesn’t violate our policies, it will remain on Twitter, and will be available if you click on “Show more replies” or choose to see everything in your search setting. The result is that people contributing to the healthy conversation will be more visible in conversations and search.

Results

In our early testing in markets around the world, we’ve already seen this new approach have a positive impact, resulting in a 4% drop in abuse reports from search and 8% fewer abuse reports from conversations. That means fewer people are seeing Tweets that disrupt their experience on Twitter.

Our work is far from done. This is only one part of our work to improve the health of the conversation and to make everyone’s Twitter experience better. This technology and our team will learn over time and will make mistakes. There will be false positives and things that we miss; our goal is to learn fast and make our processes and tools smarter. We’ll continue to be open and honest about the mistakes we make and the progress we are making. We’re encouraged by the results we’ve seen so far, but also recognize that this is just one step on a much longer journey to improve the overall health of our service and your experience on it.
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Queen_Ladybug · May 16, 2018

Twitter integration into the 'What's New' section of the People hub.

Ok, let me take something back perhaps. I have been playing around with my setup and this is what I see.

Under "What's New" in the people hub, I see Twitter, Facebook and Windows Live posts and status updates from people in my contact list. Upon looking at my contact list, I have filtered out Twitter Contacts, but the "only show post from people visible in
my contact list is not checked.

I now remember when I set things up, I allowed all the twitter contacts to be seen (didn't filter them out under settings) until I linked the ones on twitter to their contact card for other accounts (if necessary). Then I went back and unchecked twitter
under the filters. Only the people that I have contact cards in other accounts show up still, but it includes their twitter statuses if they have that linked on their card. Other random twitter accounts I follow, but don't have as contacts in other services, do
not show in my list. (News accounts, celebs, etc).

So for example, my friend Ed is in my contact lists on gmail, Facebook and Twitter. I have all of those accounts linked on his profile card in the people hub. In "What's New" (not for him specifically, but my entire "What's New" list, I see posts from him
on Facebook and Twitter. I do not however have @JoeCelebrity as a contact in any other account except Twitter. I do not see his posts in my "What's New" feed at all. I have to go to my Twitter app or the website to see that feed.

I thought from your first post that you wanted to see everyone, not just the people you have linked together. Maybe I'm still reading something wrong, but to see a person's twitter feed in the People Hub, you need to have either the person linked with a
contact in Live/Gmail/etc or Facebook, if you are filtering twitter contacts out of your contact list. The What's New feed only shows folks from your contact list.

Clear as mud?

Junaed_chowdhury · May 16, 2018

Lumia 535 touch screen unwanted behavior

I am found a problem resolved today. I connected a blackberry charger, seems like there's no touch screen sensitivity or unwanted behavior.

I guess the charger came with my Lumia was not supported with the device. I recommend Microsoft to improve charger quality.

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