X Embraces Adult Content with New Community Labels
Researchers recently uncovered plans by X (formerly Twitter) to test communities featuring adult content. The company has confirmed this by introducing an “Adult Content” label for Community admins. This label prevents the automatic filtering of content within those communities. Otherwise, all NSFW content on X Communities will be filtered by default.
These changes align with the earlier discoveries and suggest a shift towards openly allowing adult content, which has always existed on the platform. Studies show a significant presence of NSFW content on X, with sex workers and adult content bots being quite common. In fact, internal documents revealed that roughly 13% of all posts on the former Twitter platform contained such content.
The new “Adult Content” label is just one of many updates to X Communities. This update allows communities to avoid automatic filtering and cater specifically to adult content. The update was announced by an X engineer and endorsed by Elon Musk himself.
X sees Communities as a key growth driver, according to discussions between Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino. While the platform experiences rapid growth in Communities, there’s room for improvement. New features are being rolled out, including the ability to integrate other X accounts into a Community feed. This allows, for example, a video game community to include feeds of prominent video game reviewers. Notably, plans for NSFW communities weren’t mentioned during these discussions.
A successful X Communities could potentially compete with forums like Reddit and provide training data for Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, which has exclusive access to X content.
Beyond the “Adult Content” label, X is introducing a variety of other features for Communities. These include a “Ban” button for reported posts, improved explanations for denied community access, temporary and permanent bans for spammers, sorting options for posts, a dedicated Media tab on Android, and various bug fixes.
The future roadmap for Communities looks promising, with features like exploring top content across all Communities, personalized recommendations on the “For You” tab, advanced analytics for moderators, the ability to pin multiple member posts, and audio chat rooms within Communities. The post also hints at a revamped user interface for posts and replies.
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