Twitter makes it easier to report tweets and accounts, launches blocked accounts page

Twitter today announced it is improving the reporting process on its social network and launching a blocked accounts page. The new features are available now for a small group of users, but the company plans to roll them out to everyone “in the coming weeks.”

Twitter’s in-product harassment reporting is getting improvements to address content that violates the company’s rules around abuse. To make it easier to report such content, Twitter is making the reporting process more mobile-friendly, reducing the amount of initial information required, and making it simpler to flag tweets as well as accounts that the company should review.

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Since Twitter is a public-first social network, these changes improve the reporting process for everyone, including those who simply observe abuse but aren’t the victims. The company also says it has made “the first of several behind-the-scenes improvements” to its tools and processes that should result in faster response times when reviewing reported tweets and accounts.

Next up, Twitter is changing how blocked accounts work. The company says users whom you block will no longer be able to view your profile.

The company is also launching a new blocked accounts page, available from Twitter.com’s settings menu:

For now, the page simply shows you the accounts you’ve blocked and lets you make any desired changes. But Twitter is already planning to add “more controls and features to this page in the coming months.”

Over the past few months, Twitter has increasingly struggled to keep up with threats, harassment, and general unacceptable behavior on its social network. This is a clear attempt to address that, but it’s not the first and it certainly won’t be the last.

In fact, Twitter is already promising “additional user controls, further improvements to reporting, and new enforcement procedures for abusive accounts” set to arrive in the coming months. They can’t come soon enough.