When we receive a report that a Tweet contains unauthorized private media, we will now take action in line with our range of enforcement options. The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.
Sharing personal media, such as images or videos, can potentially violate a person’s privacy, and may lead to emotional or physical harm. There are growing concerns about the misuse of media and information that is not available elsewhere online as a tool to harass, intimidate, and reveal the identities of individuals. This includes threatening to expose private information or incentivizing others to do so.
As part of our ongoing efforts to build tools with privacy and security at the core, we’re updating our existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include “private media.” Under our existing policy, publishing other people's private information, such as phone numbers, addresses, and IDs, is already not allowed on Twitter.
