Twitter moves to curb cyber abuse and bullying

Twitter says it is working out ways to put an end to social network harassment and abuse on its platform, as it says its users will able to “mute” abuse.

A “mute” function makes its users to block accounts they don’t want to see tweets from as well as keywords, phrases and conversation they don’t want to get notifications about.

Twitter issued out a statement which reads;

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“these behaviours inhibit people from participating on Twitter, or anywhere. Abusive conduct removes the chance to see and share all perspectives around an issue, which we believe is critical to moving us all forward”.

“This is another step on a path towards trying to address abuse and do it in a way that is as rapid and as effective as possible”, said Del Harvey, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety.

“We don’t expect these announcements to suddenly remove abusive conduct from Twitter. No single action by us would do that. Instead, we commit to rapidly improving Twitter based on everything we observe and learn”, he said.

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