Twitter’s Community Notes feature was recently launched to give better context to certain posts from user contributions. Contributors can leave notes on any tweet, and if enough contributors with different viewpoints rate that note as helpful, it will be publicly displayed. Now, the social network announces that, those who want to contribute will have to rate a certain number of notes before they can unlock the ability to write them🇧🇷
Rating grades on the platform will increase a user’s reputation, in a system that reflects how often a contributor’s ratings helped notes to be identified as “useful” or “not useful” by the community🇧🇷 The ability to write community notes will unlock when a contributor reaches a rating of at least five.
In September, we began requiring that new contributors unlock the ability to write notes by first making valuable ratings. This increased average note quality so much that, today, we are retroactively requiring that all contributors meet these criteria in order to write notes. pic.twitter.com/0JBqycAgKz
— Community Notes (@CommunityNotes) December 21, 2022
Grades that need grading can be found in the “Need Your Help” section of this feature. The idea is to reduce misinformation on the platform.
Users who wish to become a contributor must meet the eligibility criteria listed in the “Twitter FAQ”, such as not having recently violated Twitter rules and having joined the social network at least six months before.
Tests with these new criteria were being conducted since September, but will now apply to everyone. Users maintain their contributor status by adding “quality” contributions or face having their access to write notes revoked.
Community notes were initially only visible to users in the United States prior to the feature’s global expansion on December 11, although some users have expressed concerns that they are still unable to meet the potentially US-focused eligibility criteria for contributing community notes, how to use a “reliable phone carrier.”