The "radar" suicide appeared on Twitter

The Twitter social network launched a free service for identifying bloggers with suicidal inclinations, reports The Independent. The new Samaritans Radar application (Eng.-Radar [good] Samaritan) will help Twitter users note whether one of their friends has a desire to commit suicide.

“We know that people who have fallen in a difficult situation often go on the Internet in search of support, however, we still have to study so much, why this is happening and how to make an online environment safer for vulnerable people,” explained Samaritans representative Joe Fern.

Twitter users can install an application that will monitor the tweet of their friends, paying attention to the phrases of a depressive nature and requests for help, such as: “I hate myself”, “tired of loneliness”, “I am in depression”, “help” and “I need to talk with someone”. Having discovered such things in tweets of friends, the application will warn you and tell you the best way to support a friend.

The developers note that the application will constantly develop with the appearance of new data. So, until the program has learned to distinguish between comic messages from serious ones.

The idea of ​​creating a charitable application came to the authors after a study conducted in 2013, which showed a connection between the number of tweets of depressive content and a real number of suicides.