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Title: Beefed-up Twitter abuse tools let you silence those notorious eggs Post by: HCK on March 04, 2017, 04:05:14 pm Beefed-up Twitter abuse tools let you silence those notorious eggs
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Twitter's escalating its fight against abusive behavior once again by introducing new tools and officially announcing older ones (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3171085/internet/twitter-starts-putting-abusive-users-in-the-corner-by-reducing-their-reach.html). </p><p> The company confirmed that it’s taking punitive actions against harassers, which were spotted in the wild earlier in February. When Twitter’s algorithms discover an abusive tweeter, the company will temporarily reduce that person’s reach. Anyone who doesn’t follow that user won’t be able to see their tweets for a set cool down period, such as 12 hours.</p><p> If anyone feels they get hit with a reach limit when they shouldn’t, Twitter asks for patience. “We aim to only act on accounts when we’re confident...[are]..abusive. Since these tools are new we will sometimes make mistakes, but know that we are actively working to improve and iterate on them everyday,” the company said in a blog post (https://blog.twitter.com/2017/our-latest-update-on-safety).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3175702/internet/beefed-up-twitter-abuse-tools-let-you-silence-those-notorious-eggs.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Beefed-up Twitter abuse tools let you silence those notorious eggs (http://www.macworld.com/article/3175702/internet/beefed-up-twitter-abuse-tools-let-you-silence-those-notorious-eggs.html#tk.rss_all) |