The previous Twitter note-taking feature, Birdwatch, allowed users to add context to the tweet and helped clear misinformation errors. A Twitter operator can add this note to the tweet, and users can vote if they find the context useful.
Before being expanded globally, community Notes were only available to users in the US. Twitter is also planning to add censors from other regions to its apparatus.
Now, people everywhere can view and rank notes, helping to ensure useful information for people with different opinions, Twitter said.
A few weeks ago, the community note feature was updated, helping to check and identify low-quality comments on Twitter. Therefore, if users write inuyous captions on the platform, these accounts will be stripped of the right to contribute information.
The Birdwatch feature was renamed Community Notes shortly after Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter. The billionaire believes this is the key to the future of censorship on Twitter. He believes that it is a game-changer to improve the accuracy of information on the platform.
The initial idea behind the community note feature was to create a multi-layered censorship system, including an actual user-contributed censorship layer.
But under Elon Musk, community notes may play an even bigger role as Twitter currently has few operatives after recent sacks.
The community note feature is available to users globally after Twitter officially restarted the service to provide Twitter Blue verification scores. Users will have to pay $8 a month and $11 a month if they use an iPhone, to be given features dedicated to paid accounts, including green checkmarks.
