( CNN ) -- Twitter just made it a little bit harder to be a troll . In the wake of reports about death and rape threats as well as other abuse targeting women as part of the so-called Gamergate movement , Twitter announced Tuesday that it has improved its reporting and blocking features . The changes , Twitter said in a blog post , will make it easier to police , and respond to , bad behavior among its roughly 284 million active users . Particularly on mobile , abuse will be easier to report , requiring less information and simplifying the way a user flags accounts or specific tweets for review . It also will become easier for users to report abuse that they see but were not the targets of themselves . Survey : 40 % of Web users have been harassed . The blog post also says Twitter has improved its `` behind the scenes '' procedures to make reviewing and responding to abuse reports faster . Unlike Facebook , which requires that users create accounts using their real names , Twitter allows anonymity . That 's why Twitter is sometimes the forum preferred by people who want to harass others . The service has at times come under fire for not doing enough to clamp down on such abuse . In the past few months , Gamergate has been the driving force behind a new wave of nasty , and widely reported , abuse on the site . Ostensibly an effort to improve ethical standards in video-game journalism , it quickly devolved into ugliness , with Web users identifying themselves with the movement targeting female game developers and journalists online .
Twitter has improved tools for reporting abuse . Easier mobile reporting among is among the changes . Comment: