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Twitter Unveils New Laws For Users

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Twitter unveils new laws for users.

Onyxnews Nigeria reports that Twitter on Wednesday unveiled a new version that allows Arabic language users to be addressed as female rather than male, in efforts to use “inclusive language” on the micro-blogging, site, popular in the Arab world.

Arabic verbs and adjectives have both masculine and feminine forms, including imperative verbs such as “tweet” and “explore” found on social media apps.

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In some languages, such as Arabic, words can be feminine or masculine, but we’ve missed a way for people to tell us how they want to be addressed,” Twitter said in a statement.

“So today, we’re introducing a new language setting that acknowledges and better supports the Arabic feminine form.”

Twitter also published a video showing tweets from female users criticising the absence of such feminine forms on major social networks.

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We know there’s more work to be done for our service to reflect the variety of voices around the world,” it said.

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In a region where most traditional media carry little to no criticism of political elites, many young people have taken to social media platforms to speak more freely — a phenomenon that played a key role in the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.

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