Twitter Promises To Stop Trolls, Again

While it is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, Twitter suffers from a substantial presence of trolls that other social networks can’t even touch. As a result, the micro-blogging service has promised yet again that it will step up efforts to reduce abusive behavior. Based on what Twitter intends to implement this time around, it might actually stand a chance at stamping out trolls once and for all.

For years, Twitter would promise to do something about abusive behavior, but offensive posts still persist. This time, it would seem that the social media company is prepared to go nuclear by putting three new systems in place according to a blog post that it put up.

“Last week, we introduced an improvement to reporting abusive Tweets that gives people experiencing targeted harassment more ways to report it,” the post reads. “Today, we’re announcing three changes: stopping the creation of new abusive accounts, bringing forward safer search results, and collapsing potentially abusive or low-quality Tweets.”

The first part of the new system is particularly interesting, PC World reports, because of its potential for actually putting a stop to the abusive behaviors of internet trolls. It gets to the bottom of a substantial factor for why offensive posts continue to exist on Twitter, which is basically being able to create as many new accounts as needed.

Aside from finally cutting trolls off from the knees, the two other methods supplement the screening by suppressing any abusive posts. This means that Twitter users will no longer see offensive comments or threads the moment they open their accounts, which is liable to ruin anyone’s day. The posts can still be seen if the user really wants to, but at least that’s just an option now.

It is worth noting that the company seems to be doing this in order to protect big brands and companies from complaints. The new screening measures do apply to everyone, but the intent is hard to miss.