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Title: How to turn on Twitter's quality filters and silence trolls Post by: HCK on August 23, 2016, 04:05:14 pm How to turn on Twitter's quality filters and silence trolls
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Twitter has finally come up with a solution to muzzle trolls.</p><p>The company published a blog post on Thursday announcing two new controls for filtering your notifications (https://blog.twitter.com/2016/new-ways-to-control-your-experience-on-twitter). Twitter notifications are the primary method through which trolls can contact and harass users.</p><p>The first new setting reduces the noise in your notifications stream. By default, anyone who mentions your Twitter username with the “@” symbol shows up in your Twitter notifications. It doesn’t matter if they’re asking a simple question, offering constructive criticism, or threatening to cut your head off. Everyone shows up.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3109864/internet/how-to-turn-on-twitters-quality-filters-and-silence-trolls.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How to turn on Twitter's quality filters and silence trolls (http://www.macworld.com/article/3109864/internet/how-to-turn-on-twitters-quality-filters-and-silence-trolls.html#tk.rss_all) |