Twitter Community Notes Expanding To 4 More Countries. Here's What It Means

Twitter Community Notes, the micro-blogging company's crowd-sourced fact-checking programme, is now open to contributors from four more countries.

Twitter Community Notes, the micro-blogging company's crowd-sourced fact-checking programme, is now open to contributors from four more countries, the media has reported. These countries include Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The Elon Musk-owned company made the announcement that it was expanding its contributor base.

"We admit new contributors in batches, growing the contributor base by ~10% per week. We’re monitoring quality and continuing to expand to new countries over time 🌎🌍🌏," Community Notes posted on Twitter.

"We are now admitting contributors from the UK 🇬🇧, Ireland 🇮🇪, Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿 — welcome to Community Notes! Want to help? Sign up here:..."

Twitter Community Notes intends to allow users to add more context to tweets through links and reports. The programme has been widely used to debunk or correct claims made in popular tweets. The company introduced the social fact-checking programme in 2022 in the US under "Birdwatch", but soon after Musk started managing Twitter, he renamed "Birdwatch" to "Community Notes".

In fact, Musk's idea of renaming Twitter's Birdwatch feature to Community Notes gave way to an argument between him and Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey. Dorsey took on Musk over the micro-blogging platform's new feature and its vision.

In November last year, Twitter rolled out an algorithm update that identifies more low-quality Community Notes, which will result in the suspension of contributor status for those who write unhelpful annotations to provide further clarification and context on tweets. The company said that those users will have to earn back their "contributor" status, as Musk promotes community-based moderation as the future of the company.