Twitter is one of the sophisticated social networking sites.Twitter has introduced a 'report abuse' option for users who are targeted with threatening and abusive messages on the popular social networking site.The report button had already been introduced for mobile phone users, but is now available across all platforms, including desktop websites,in Twitter The Independent reported.The move has been hailed by the hundreds of thousands of campaigners who had called for the social network sites to take action against threatening and abusive users of Twitter .Many received bomb threats, while two of them were warned they would be raped by users of the site.
The threats led to a public outcry for action from the microblogging site to introduce measures that would protect users.
There are still issues: users have to agree for the report to be potentially shared with the harasser, and there are some boxes that could be auto-populated that aren't. But overall, this is a fantastic first step made by Twitter-one of the leading social networking site.
There are still issues: users have to agree for the report to be potentially shared with the harasser, and there are some boxes that could be auto-populated that aren't. But overall, this is a fantastic first step made by Twitter-one of the leading social networking site.
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