Twitter to reduce visibility of disruptive, negative accounts


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 16 May 2018

The Twitter Inc. logo is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Monday, April 23, 2018. Twitter Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figure on April 25. Photographer: Alex Flynn/Bloomberg

Twitter Inc is taking another step to reduce the amount of harmful content on its site, this time expanding the effort beyond users who explicitly break the social network’s rules. 

The company says there is a small number of Twitter accounts with a highly negative effect on other users’ experience on the app. These accounts may be spreading spam messages, commenting in abusive or disruptive ways, or trying to game the formula for search results, promoting irrelevant content. 

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