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TWITTER HAS VOWED to make using the social networking website safer following a raft of complaints over abusive tweets by anonymous trolls.
The company announced last night that it will not “tolerate abuse and we’re launching efforts to stop it”.
Last week, the tech firm introduced an improvement to reporting abusive tweets that “gives people experiencing targeted harassment more ways to report it”.
Yesterday, they announced three new changes: stopping the creation of new abusive accounts, safer search results, and collapsing potentially abusive or low-quality tweets.
Vow
In a statement last night, a Twitter spokesman said: “We’re taking steps to identify people who have been permanently suspended and stop them from creating new accounts. This focusses more effectively on some of the most prevalent and damaging forms of behaviour, particularly accounts that are created only to abuse and harass others.”
The social network security team said it had also been working on identifying and collapsing potentially abusive and low-quality replies so the most relevant conversations are brought forward.
Twitter said these changes are expected to be rolled out in the coming weeks.
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These are very lonely times for distressed people with no services & with Simon and Leo’s view on the countrys future and of course their spectacular failures in their housing and health ministries is it any wonder more and more citizens are despairing about ending up homeless & on endless hospital & social services waiting lists
The breakdown/disappearance of any semblance of community in rural Ireland is a huge factor in the rocketing rise in self-harm and suicide. Personally, my view is there is no such thing as society now – rather a random agglomeration of individuals who happen to be in the same place. On the peak periods for self-harm (and worse) there is no doubt that the period between Xmas day and Jan 1st is the most dangerous. I am aware of 4 people who have taken the ultimate step away from living in that period, over the last 3 years.
Liquid courage is definitely a factor. This is no surprise. Alcohol and cutting both serve the purpose of medicating emotional pain. In the case of cutting, the physical pain is easier to focus on than the emotional.
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