The innovation was announced by Hao Tang a safety engineer of the platform, throughout a blog spot, the social media explained their compromise to user safety. Reporting multiple Tweets at once will, resultantly, allow the Safety Team to review them in context and to determine it more accurately what happened, who is to blame and on whose shoulder lays the responsibility for which action should be carried out.
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The new harassment reporting process is rolling out now on iOS, Android, and the Web.
Twitter has faced criticism for their handling of speech content on the site over the past few months.
Right now, users can only report multiple Tweets from same account; the company is not currently allowing them to report multiple users at the same time, in cases where there might be mass harassment of a single user. This also prevents the twitter staff from handling longer queues of reports, if users have reported multiple abusive tweets multiple times.
Twitter is one of those places on the internet where users give their opinion even if it’s not needed.
A little more than a year ago, then-Twitter Inc.-CEO Dick Costolo admitted to employees in a company memo that “we suck at dealing with abuse…”
The new update makes it easier for users to provide information on the extent of the abuse and reduces Twitter’s time to respond. Cyber bullying has become a major problem on the internet and Twitter is doing its part to protect its users by letting them flag those accounts which they find attacking or abusive. Tang also assured that there will be more changes and improvements on the site. When there’s behavior that crosses the line into abuse, users should be able to report it easily.
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According to the updated language emphasizes, Twitter will no longer tolerate “behavior meant to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another user’s voice”.
