As part of its ongoing efforts of clamping down on abusers across its network, Twitter will start blocking accounts of repeat offenders who post abusive comments during Periscope live streams. The current comment moderation policy of Periscope involves group moderation which basically suspends a user when majority viewers report a comment as abusive, TechCrunch reported.
As part of its ongoing efforts of clamping down on abusers across its network, Twitter will start blocking accounts of repeat offenders who post abusive comments during Periscope live streams. The current comment moderation policy of Periscope involves group moderation which basically suspends a user when majority viewers report a comment as abusive, TechCrunch reported.
With the new guidelines, accounts getting repeat suspensions will be reviewed and suspended.
Twitter has selected academic partners who will help make the social platform less abusive and toxic. The researchers from Leiden University, University of Oxford, and University of Amsterdam will study aspects of conversations such as uncivil discourse, intolerance, and echo chambers, perspectives and so on, Mashable reported.
Twitter's goal is to understand all these aspects and minimise the instances of abuse and harassment on the platform by analysing the health of the conversations.
Recently, Twitter said it had removed more than 143,000 apps from the messaging service since April in a fresh crackdown on "malicious" activity from automated accounts. The San Francisco-based social network said it was tightening access to its application programming interfaces (APIs) that allows developers to make automated Twitter posts.
"We're committed to providing access to our platform to developers whose products and services make Twitter a better place," said Twitter senior product management director Rob Johnson.
"However, recognizing the challenges facing Twitter and the public -- from spam and malicious automation to surveillance and invasions of privacy -- we're taking additional steps to ensure that our developer platform works in service of the overall health of conversation on Twitter."
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