It’s tough on us Twitter (News - Alert) users. Torn between wanting to tweet about the cool new bathing suit you found at the shopping mall and that recent article from the WSJ about merging Facebook (News - Alert) and Google+, it’s difficult to decide the direction in which you want to steer your Twitter account.

Work-related only? Work and personal mixed? The occasional harmless picture of you doing body shots off a one-armed contortionist? Life could be easier. Decisions such as these are rough.

Fortunately, Twitter has finally caught on to this dilemma, and will now begin to incorporate a tagging system into its interface that allows users to tag (News - Alert) tweets as “sensitive” in order to filter them from being seen by certain followers.

Reports from Twitter developers note that users may begin to notice “a new boolean field in API responses & streams containing tweets: ‘possibly_sensitive.’”

Twitter has also issued documents detailing how this additional feature will be moving forward after its testing phase.

Twitter’s support team offers suggestions and warnings as to how to proceed using its new feature. “Images that have been marked as containing sensitive content will have a warning message that a viewer must click through before viewing the image. Only users who have opted in to see possibly sensitive content will see these images without the warning message.”

Those of us mired in the personal/work tweeting dilemma look forward to this new development’s proliferation with gusto.

Juliana Kenny graduated from the University of Connecticut with a double degree in English and French. After managing a small company for two years, she joined TMC (News - Alert) as a Web Editor for TMCnet. Juliana currently focuses on the call center and CRM industries, but she also writes about cloud telephony and network gear including softswitches.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin