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If you use Twitter, you know that abuse is rampant. Mindless trolls and bots reply to your tweets and insult you, even threaten you. Twitter has been very slow to come up with procedures for dealing with this, and lots of people just give up on Twitter because they have bad experiences.<\/p>\n
Fortunately,\u00a0the company has rolled out new ways to report tweets and direct messages, and presumably has a team that will examine these reports and suspend or remove accounts guilty of abuse or harassment. Here’s how you can let Twitter know when you or someone else has been a victim of abuse.<\/p>\n
You can now use Twitter’s reporting system to report abusive tweets, and even spam. If you find a tweet you want to report, tap or click the arrow at the top-right of the tweet and choose Report Tweet.<\/p>\n
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You’ll see several options:<\/p>\n
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You can choose:<\/p>\n
After you make your choice, click Next, and you have a number of options.<\/p>\n
Twitter gets more thorough when you say that a tweet is abusive or harmful. It starts by offering the following options:<\/p>\n
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As you can see, Twitter displays a number of categories, which presumably filter your report to different areas of the company’s reporting team. After you’ve selected a category, the next screen asks whether the tweet is targeting you, someone else, or a group of people (these choices differ depending on which category you choose).<\/p>\n
When you’ve chosen the above, click Next, and you are then given the option to select up to five tweets from the same user to add to your report. This is very useful if you have been the victim of repeated harassment, or to show that the user has a history of harassing others. It will also give Twitter a better picture of the user’s tweets. Select from one to five tweets, then click Add.<\/p>\n
Twitter will hopefully get around to investigating your report. I’ve reported a few abusive tweets since the new system was rolled out and I’ve received emails confirming my reports, but nothing yet about any decisions regrading those reports.<\/p>\n