Thursday, April 23, 2015

Twitter turns and blocks offensive profiles – Al Momento News

MADRID, April 23 (Al Momento News) -. Twitter announced new updates to its platform, which takes action abuse and violence in the network of “microblogging”. The new functionality detects “tweets” abusive and has the ability to block accounts temporarily.

In his blog, Twitter details to be taken into account . other factors in the analysis, as the age of the account and the similarity of the messages previously identified as aggressive tweets

In addition, the range of action against certain messages is extended: previously only banned threats direct, now incitement to hatred or violence.

The company may temporarily block the user accounts who commit abuses. “Our previous policy was too limited and limiting our ability to react to certain types of bullying behavior”, said the network.

In recent months, Twitter has implemented measures to limit abuse and deter ” trolls “users who are dedicated to bother internet.

Among them, there was an improvement of the tools to report content and behavior or require users who break the rules identified by a phone number .

Months before the technology company said it had tripled the team involved in detecting and responding to abusive behavior and five the number of reports they answered. As far as Twitter, is a “priority” both respond appropriately to the offensive behavior as being able to implement measures to discourage them.

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