Trolls, beware. Twitter’s out to get you.
It may sound like mission impossible: trying to curb accounts whose sole purpose seems to be to harass users of the social media service. But Twitter’s making changes that it says will get that job done, curtailing abusive tweets and accounts that have long plagued the site.
“We stand for freedom of expression and people being able to see all sides of any topic,” Ed Ho, Twitter’s vice president of engineering, said in a blog post Tuesday. “That’s put in jeopardy when abuse and harassment stifle and silence those voices. ”
Harrassment on Twitter stretches back years — former CEO Dick Costolo said last week he wishes he’d put better protections in place in its early days — but flared up mightily in recent months, drawing increased scrutiny.
