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Twitter announces three new features to combat cyber abuse and harassment

By Wong Chung Wee - on 8 Feb 2017, 4:25pm

Twitter announces three new features to combat cyber abuse and harassment

Twitter has announced three new features to make its platform a safer place. The first feature is the ability to stop abusive Twitter users from creating new accounts to continue their online tirade. Twitter claims to be able to identity such folks, who “have been permanently suspended and stop them from creating new accounts.” This treatment is reserved for extremely vitriolic users who take to the platform to ‘abuse and harass” other users.

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The company is introducing ‘safer search results”, which will exclude Tweets that contain “potentially sensitive content”, as well as Tweets from offending and banned account. Such Tweets can be still shown if the user chooses to locate them. Last of all, Twitter is working on identifying “low-quality and abusive” Tweets, and grouping such replies, so that relevant conversations are brought forward. The user can still opt to view the less relevant replies. According to Twitter, these changes will be rolled out in the coming weeks.

(Source: Twitter)

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