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Twitter starts putting abusive users in the corner by reducing their reach

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Twitter recently introduced a new weapon to combat trolls on its network: the timeout.</p><p>
Last week, the social network rolled out a new feature that tries to detect abusive behavior from user accounts, as first reported by BuzzFeed (https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-is-now-temporarily-throttling-reach-of-abusive-accou?utm_term=.lrAvK7Q2R#.vbP6KDPoX). When abuse is suspected, Twitter reduces the number of people who can see that person’s tweets for a pre-determined period of time. </p><figure class="medium right"><a class="zoom" href="https://cms-images.idgesg.net/images/article/2017/02/twitterabuselimit-100709301-orig.jpg"><img src="(http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2017/02/twitterabuselimit-100709301-medium.jpg)" border="0" alt="twitterabuselimit" width="300" height="374" data-imageid="100709301" data-license="IDG"/>[/url] <small class="credit">Ian Pau/PCWorld</small> <figcaption>
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A Twitter search result showing users reacting to temporary limits on their account.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3171085/internet/twitter-starts-putting-abusive-users-in-the-corner-by-reducing-their-reach.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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