Twitter Addressing Trolling

In an effort to put a stop on online bullying, Twitter has introduced abuse-blocking filter that verified users can use.

10:52 27 March 2015

Twitter has introduced a new feature that users can use to block bullying and threatening messages from users’ timeline. This is available to verified users who already have access to tailored filtering, which lets them see edited versions of their notifications from the people they chat to most often. 

 

The new features uses algorithms designed to detect threatening words and their context. 

 

Those using the app are presented with a message saying: "Quality filtering aims to remove all Tweets from your notifications timeline that contain threats, offensive or abusive language, duplicate content, or are sent from suspicious accounts."

 

The feature, which is only available on Twitter’s app for Apple mobile devices, can be turned on or off at any time. Depending on how it is received by users, Twitter will most likely to roll out the new feature to all users within months.