Twitter says it’s taking steps to curb harassment on its platform — again.
The real-time microblogging service said Tuesday it will stop trolls and cyberbullies from creating new accounts if they have accounts that have been suspended for abuse.
In new features that will begin rolling out Tuesday, Twitter said it will also identify and “collapse” tweets in users’ feeds and searches that are “low-quality” and potentially abusive.
“We stand for freedom of expression and people being able to see all sides of any topic,” Ed Ho, Twitter’s vice president of engineering, said in a Tuesday blog post.
“That’s put in jeopardy when abuse and harassment stifle and silence those voices,” Ho added. “We won’t tolerate it and we’re launching new efforts to stop it.”
The anti-harassment features are the latest in a dribble over the past few years that has, thus far, failed to reverse Twitter’s reputation as a haven for harassers.
That’s despite the fact that Chief Executive Jack Dorsey has made a priority of tackling the problem since he retook the helm of the company a year and a half ago.
“Measuring our progress against abuse daily,” Dorsey tweeted last month. “Need to improve every day.”
Even Twitter’s previous CEO, Dick Costolo, admitted that the company “sucks” when it comes to clamping down on bullies.
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