Twitter says its AI can now report 50 percent of abusive tweets

Twitter says its AI tin can at present written report 50 pct of calumniating tweets

The company says it is getting better at moderating

Twitter has been fighting abuse on its platform for a long fourth dimension now and the company'southward latest earnings suggest that it'due south getting a lot better at moderating.

In this twelvemonth'due south Q3 earnings, the visitor spent a lot of time highlighting its AI moderation tools. Specifically, the visitor states that fifty percent of the tweets that are taken of its platform before users fifty-fifty report them. This is upward from 43 percent in Q2 and 38 per centum in Q1 2019.

According to the company's earnings letter, it's as well getting better at making coin off of its users. Twitter is up 17 percent in Q3 since it was able to make $145 one thousand thousand USD (virtually $189 million CAD).

While the company is putting huge numbers on the lath, information technology's still not plenty. Twitter made $44 million USD (roughly $57 million CAD) in profit, which is much lower than the $92 million ($120 million CAD) it earned in the third quarter of last year.

The company only reports its daily active users, and information technology says that it has roughly 145 one thousand thousand people using Twitter every day. While this may seem like a lot, Snapchat has 210 one thousand thousand and Instagram has 500 meg only using Stories, reportsThe Verge.

That said, Twitter doesn't seem worried and is confident in its advertizing structure. The social media company says that "video ad formats connected to show strength, specially our Video Website Card and In-Stream Video Ads."

Source: Twitter, The Verge