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Twitter is promising<\/a> that it\u2019ll take \u201cless severe actions\u201d when disciplining accounts that break its rules; it\u2019ll only suspend Twitter accounts that engage in \u201csevere or ongoing, repeat violations\u201d of its rules. The company also says<\/a> it\u2019ll be letting anyone appeal suspensions starting February 1st, and that those doing so will be judged using updated standards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n What will Twitter do instead of suspending your account? The \u201cless severe actions\u201d are things that Twitter has been doing for years<\/a>, such as limiting visibility of a tweet, or telling a user to remove a tweet before they can get back onto the site. Today\u2019s change is that Twitter is promising to reach for those tools more often, instead of going straight for the ban button. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The company also says<\/a> it\u2019s planning to be more transparent with its enforcement actions, and will be rolling out some unspecified new features to help with that next month. One possible example: CEO Elon Musk promised last year<\/a> that Twitter would let you know when you\u2019ve been \u201cshadowbanned,\u201d and why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Today, Twitter also seems to be justifying its decisions to bring those people back to Twitter, saying it \u201cdid not reinstate accounts that engaged in illegal activity, threats of harm or violence, large-scale spam and platform manipulation, or when there was no recent appeal to have the account reinstated.\u201d That does make it rather odd that Trump\u2019s been let back on, given that Twitter said in 2021<\/a> that it permanently suspended the former president \u201cdue to the risk of further incitement of violence.\u201d However, it\u2019s possible that\u2019s because \u2014 like the genesis of the amnesty policy itself \u2014 Trump was let back on because Elon wanted him back and decided to poll his own audience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n