article_snippet.sent: Earlier this week, Twitter announced that abusive accounts will now be temporarily locked until a phone number or similar is added.
article_snippet.sent: Twitter already asks users who violate Twitter abuse guidelines to delete content, and can suspend accounts permanently if accounts don't.
article_snippet.sent: Twitter new enforcement option lets the support team temporarily lock abusive accounts for a set period of time, up to 12 hours.
article_snippet.sent: Twitter is working on ways to make Twitter easier to block and report abuse.
article_snippet.sent: For months Twitter has been rolling out features designed to rid the site of the scourge of trolls .
article_snippet.sent: the social network rules now say that users must not 'post intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed without the subject's consent'.
article_snippet.sent: Twitter said an affected user can report a post if Twitter believe a post contains photos or videos posted without Twitter consent.
article_snippet.sent: From today, Twitter users can now report indirect threats, offending accounts will be temporarily locked until a phone number or similar is added, and an algorithm will automatically remove abuse before you even see an algorithm.
article_snippet.sent: Twitter already asks users who violate Twitter abuse guidelines to delete content, and can suspend accounts permanently if accounts don't.
article_snippet.sent: But under the new changes, Twitter's new enforcement option lets the support team temporarily lock abusive accounts for a set period of time, up to 12 hours.
article_snippet.sent: Elsewhere, Twitter has begun testing a product feature to help identify suspected abusive tweets and limit suspected abusive tweets reach by automatically removing suspected abusive tweets from a person's notifications.
article_snippet.sent: Twitter has also updated Twitter violent threats policy to include indirect tweets, or the 'threats of violence against others or promoting violence against others.'