Twitter Adds Safety Features
Shortly after Dick Costolo promised to address cyberbullying on Twitter, the company has implemented new safety features to protect users.
A new process allows users to report "abusive or harmful" tweets with a few easy clicks. In addition to this new reporting tool, Twitter announced the following accomplishments so far:
- "...we now review five times as many user reports as we did previously, and we have tripled the size of the support team focused on handling abuse reports."
- "...we've been able to significantly reduce the average response time to a fraction of what it was, and we see this number continuing to drop."
Discussion Starters:
- Assess Twitter's announcement of the new safety features. What do you find most and least convincing?
- How well will the new features address harassment and other bullying behavior on Twitter?