Twitter takes small steps to finally deal with its harassment problem<article>
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Twitter is a real-time news platform, a social scene, and a forum for anonymous harassment and abuse. One of these things is not like the others, so the
company is making changes to fix the process for reporting and blocking harassers.</p><figure class="medium right">
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Twitter is rolling out streamlined in-app abuse reports.</p></figcaption>
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The new tools won’t make life easier for prominent Twitter users who experience a daily onslaught of abuse, but they simplify the process of reporting
abusive tweets within the Twitter app and managing block lists on Twitter’s desktop site. Now you can quickly tap through an abuse report to file a
complaint on your phone, proof that Twitter has come a long way since first adding the
ability to report abuse in summer 2013.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2854336/twitter-takes-small-steps-to-finally-deal-with-its-harassment-problem.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Twitter takes small steps to finally deal with its harassment problem
