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Twitter Releases New Data on Effectiveness of Efforts to Tackle Trolls and Abuse

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With Twitter has come under intense scrutiny and criticism in recent times, one of the platform’s biggest identified problems has been trolls and abuse, and the platform’s historic inaction to address such concerns. Twitter has acknowledged such, and made it a key focus, and over the last year they’ve introduced a range of tools to protect users and eliminate such behavior.

Those measures include collapsing or hiding potentially offensive tweets, the ability to mute certain words from your notifications, an update of the default egg avatar to encourage users to upload an actual photo, new transparency over reporting processes, placing warnings on potentially offensive profiles and tweets and a secondary ‘message requests’ DM inbox.

And that’s not even all of them – while Twitter has taken a lot of heat over their previous inaction, they deserve credit for the work they’ve done on this front of late, with an increasing array of options to help users improve their on-platform experience.

But have these measures worked?

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