SOCIAL networking service Twitter announced it is stepping up efforts to make its online platform safer from offensive users and has suspended 10 times more abusive accounts daily this year compared to last year. We’re now taking action on 10x the number of abusive accounts every day compared to the same time last year,” Twitter said in a post over the weekend, without disclosing the actual figures. “We also now limit account functionality or place suspensions on thousands more abusive accounts each day,” it added. Accounts that we put into this period of limited functionality generate 25% fewer abuse reports, and approximately 65% of these accounts are in this state just once,” it said. Twitter also said that it has introduced notification filters and muting keywords to protect its users from abusive users.

Source: Manila Times July 23, 2017 17:03 UTC