Twitter Unveils New Tool To Report Abuse More Easily
You can now attach multiple offensive tweets to a report.
— -- Twitter is stepping up its fight against abuse and crime with a tool allowing users to report multiple offensive tweets at one time.
"Behavior that crosses the line into abuse is against our rules and we want it to be easy for you to report it to us," Hao Tang,a safety engineer at Twitter, said in a blog post. "So, today we’re introducing an improvement to our reporting process: the ability to attach multiple Tweets to a single report."
The enhanced offensive tweet reporting tool will be rolled out on desktop and mobile, both iOS and Android, in the coming weeks, according the post.
Cracking down on abuse and crime has been a priority for Twitter.
Since the middle of 2015, the company said it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts, many of which were supporting ISIS, according to a blog post in February. The social networking site has been leveraged by ISIS to recruit members and spread propaganda.
Twitter increased the size of its teams tasked with reviewing reports of potentially terror-related threats. The company said it has also taken a proactive approach by using its "proprietary spam-fighting tools" that are capable of surfacing accounts that could potentially be in violation.
The results have paid off with Twitter reporting "an increase in account suspensions and this type of activity shifting off Twitter."
Twitter is set to report its quarterly earnings at 5 p.m. EDT today.
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