Feb 7, 2017

Twitter rolls out new anti-abuse tools

"In a blogpost announcing the changes, Twitter's vice-president of engineering, Ed Ho, said:"Making Twitter a safer place is our primary focus. In a tweet last month, chief executive Jack Dorsey promised that it was going to take "a completely new approach to abuse on Twitter, including having a more open and real-time dialogue every step of the way". Neither of these tools will mean tweets are removed entirely from the platform but users will be able to control whether or not they want to see either in their settings. In June last year, Twitter updated its block button to make sure that people who used the function could no longer see the tweets from the person they blocked. Twitter has had to address the issue of abuse following a lack of interest from potential buyers.

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