By Rebecca Stewart

Twitter has announced three new tools designed to combat abuse within its walls, including a commitment to stopping trolls create accounts on the platform in the first instance.

Announcing the news via a blog post, Twitter vice-president of engineering Ed Ho said that making Twitter a safer place was “a primary focus”.

As such, the company will now stop the creation of new abusive accounts, present users with “safer” search results, and push potentially abusive or low-quality tweets further down users’ timelines.

The last point means that only the most relevant conversations will be initially presented to users. Read full story ›

Source: The Drum