Twitter's troll problem isn't new. Yesterday, a New Delhi
journalist filed an FIR against an anonymous Twitter account for online
harrassment; and CEO Dick Costolo recently admitted that the company
"sucked at dealing with abuse."
Twitter has been trying hard to scrub its platform of
trolls, but clearly algorithms are not enough. Twitter needs human intervention
and today, it has asked for it.
The company has announced a new feature that lets you share
your list of blocked users others on the platform to make blocking multiple
accounts simpler.
Once other users import your list into their own accounts
they can keep adding offensive accounts to it and essentially crowdsource
reporting and blocking Twitter's rotten apples.
"This new, advanced feature makes blocking multiple
accounts easy, fast and community driven,”" writes Xiaoyun Zhang, a user
safety engineer at Twitter on the company's blog.
It's an interesting step, one seems to concede that humans,
not technology, can be more effective at flagging trolls and spam accounts on
Twitter.
To import or export a list of blocked accounts, log in to
your Twitter account and navigate to your blocked accounts settings. Then Click
on the advanced options drop-down menu and select the action you want to take.
Source From:- http://www.hindustantimes.com/
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