With more than 500 million tweets being posted every day it is safe to assume that they may include tweets that violate Twitter’s rules on harassment and abuse. Even if you’re not the direct target it is really not that hard to see someone else being subjected to harassment or abuse on Twitter. Today the microblogging network announced that it has made improvements to in-product harassment reporting and “block,” making the process more mobile-friendly while requiring less initial information and making it simpler overall to flag tweets and accounts for review.
In order to enable faster response times Twitter has also made a series of behind-the-scenes improvements to the tools and processes that help it review tweets and accounts that have been reported for abuse and harassment.
Changes to block have also been made. The new blocked accounts page, accessible from the settings menu on Twitter.com, shows the accounts that have been blocked. Twitter promises to add more controls and features to this page in the coming months. Accounts that you have blocked won’t be able to view your profile when they’re logged in.
Currently these updates have been rolled out for a small group of users. Twitter is going to roll them out for all users over the coming weeks. It also promises to introduce additional user controls and make further improvements to reporting and enforcement procedures for abusive accounts.
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