Twitter Pledges to be More Vigilant on Stopping Abuse

The past couple of weeks have been a bit tough for Twitter. Twitter senior director of trust and safety, Del Harvey, and the UK’s general manager, Tony Wang, announced via a blog post, they Twitter could and would do more to stop users from abusing one another.




want people to feel safe on Twitter.There are also plans to introduce an “in-tweet” report button, that will allow for the simple reporting of abusive or threatening messages. As it stands, users that want to complain about another, have to go through the obfuscated help centre and file a report against a person.
Twitter also pledges to add more staff to handle abuse claims and said that it would “explore new ways of using technology to improve everyone’s experience on Twitter.”