{"id":7341,"date":"2017-07-10T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/twitter-lets-you-avoid-trolls-by-muting-new-users-and-strangers.html"},"modified":"2017-07-10T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:53:05","slug":"twitter-lets-you-avoid-trolls-by-muting-new-users-and-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-lets-you-avoid-trolls-by-muting-new-users-and-strangers.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter lets you avoid trolls by muting new users and strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When trolls barge into people\u2019s notifications with offensive replies or user names, those legitimate users might not keep coming back to Twitter. So today the company rolled out<\/a> new tools to help you silence the riff-raff. There are now options<\/a> to mute notifications from newly registered accounts, people you don\u2019t follow and people who don\u2019t follow you. These can be configured in the Notifications – Settings – Advanced Filters section of Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Now you have even more control over your notifications. Mute accounts that don’t follow you, new accounts, and more. https:\/\/t.co\/UapP6DtTtY<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/RcBQGx219k<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) July 10, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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These additions follow Twitter\u2019s March rollout of ways to silence people<\/a> who haven\u2019t added a profile picture or verified their email address or phone number. Twitter also recently required filtering new Direct Messages into a Requests folder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The change comes amid Twitter denying The Washington Post<\/a>\u2018s report that it\u2019s working on ways to let people report fake news.<\/p>\n

Twitter has been publicly urged to deal with its abuse problems for years now. But currently, Twitter\u2019s strategy seems to be hiding the abuse from victims rather than aggressively exterminating the trolls that spew hate speech and threats.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s changes won\u2019t do anything to get rid of people trying to offend or scare away legitimate users. But at least the options could reduce the harm caused by jerks who often register new accounts to attack people, don\u2019t always follow their victims and are rarely followed back.<\/p>\n

For Twitter to level-up beyond its current scale or impact, it must make itself usable by mainstream internet citizens. These are people who aren\u2019t likely to configure deeply buried settings, understand user interface jargon, put up with vulgar trolling or immediately realize what the service is even for.<\/p>\n

Yet at Twitter\u2019s core is a service valuable to everyone: the ability to consume a distilled, snackable perspective of the world from experts on every topics and participate in the discussion. Twitter\u2019s challenge will be taking the necessary steps to make its app simple and safe enough, even if it means jostling its loyalists, and kicking out the spam bots and unsavory characters even as it\u2019s trying to keep its user count growing.<\/p>\n

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