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Twitter Announces Steps to Curb Abuse

by VOA News

   Twitter says it is stepping up efforts to prevent "abuse and
   harassment" on its microblogging platform.

   On Tuesday, the company [1]announced several steps it is taking.

   First, Twitter says it will identify people who have been banned for
   online abuse and prevent them from creating new accounts.

   Additionally, the company says it will create a "safe search" feature
   so that "tweets that contain potentially sensitive content and tweets
   from blocked and muted accounts" will be removed from search results.
   Those tweets will still exist, but Twitter says they will not clutter
   search results any longer.

   The company also says it will begin "identifying and collapsing
   potentially abusive and low-quality replies so the most relevant
   conversations are brought forward."

   Twitter has been failing to keep up with other social media platforms
   such as Facebook. Twitter recently reduced staff and an attempt to sell
   the company failed.

   The 10-year-old Twitter has never made a profit, and despite tweaks to
   the format, has continued to see its user base shrink.

References

   1. https://blog.twitter.com/2017/an-update-on-safety