Security News > 2020 > June > Twitter wants to know if you meant to share that article
2020-06-12 09:40
Just about to share an article with a sensational headline? Stop! Did you at least read it first?
Sharing clickbait containing spurious content without bothering to check it over is a perennial problem for attention-challenged social media users and now Twitter wants to help stop it.
Sharing an article can spark conversation, so you may want to read it before you Tweet it.
To help promote informed discussion, we're testing a new prompt on Android - when you Retweet an article that you haven't opened on Twitter, we may ask if you'd like to open it first.
Others point out that they may already have read an article on another device even if they haven't opened it on Twitter.