Twitter introduces 'report abuse' button

Twitter has introduced a 'report tweet' option for users who are targeted with threatening and abusive messages on the popular social networking site.

NEW DELHI: Twitter has introduced a 'report tweet' option for users who are targeted with threatening and abusive messages on the popular social networking site.

The report button had already been introduced for mobile phone users, but is now available across all platforms, including desktop websites, The Independent reported.

The move has been hailed by the hundreds of thousands of campaigners who had called for the social network sites to take action against threatening and abusive users.

Classicist and television historian Professor Mary Beard, Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, Independent columnist Grace Dent and Europe editor of Time magazine Catherine Mayer had been targeted along with a number of other women on the social media site.

They received bomb threats, while two of them were warned they would be raped by users of the site.The threats led to a public outcry for action from the microblogging site to introduce measures that would protect users.

The feature of report abuse has already been available in the iOS app and now these features would be made available on the other platforms as well.

Twitter has introduced another significant feature called 'Blue Line' to highlight conversations in the timeline.

Twitter's desktop, iOS and Android versions would now have 'conversations' between the people who follow each other, linked with a thin blue line. The line will appear at the bottom of profile pics.

Twitter made the announcement in an official blog post on Wednesday while stating that "Tweets that are part of a conversation are shown in chronological order so it's easier for you to follow along. You'll see up to three Tweets in sequence in your home timeline; if you want to see more, you can tap a Tweet to see all the replies, including those from people you don't follow."

Twitter has also improved the app for entry-level Android smartphones with limited storage, such as the Samsung Galaxy Y, HTC Explorer, Micromax Bolt, etc. For these devices, the Twitter app has now been made less than half the previous size, making it much faster to download and easier to install
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