twitter update

Twitter has updated its rules to spotlight it's taking a harder stance against abuse.
It follows claims the social media big had not done enough to tackle cyberbullies or extremists within the past.
In a blog, the firm same the new language emphatic it'd "not tolerate behaviour supposed to harass or intimidate".
It additionally same it had processed what it thought of to be "abusive behaviour and hateful conduct".
This includes:
making violent threats or winding up "targeted abuse or harassment"
running many similar accounts to figure around one amongst them being suspended
impersonating different users for deceptive functions
The firm secure to suspend or shut the accounts of users UN agency "cross the road into abuse".
Multiple accounts
Pressure is growing on social media companies to tackle problems like on-line ideology and cyberbullying, that area unit same to have an effect on numerous young Britons per annum.
The Times rumored last week that the house Secretary Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu could had recommended that new police work powers - unveiled  beneath the fact-finding Powers Bill - might be wont to facilitate police to unmask anonymous cyberbullies.
In a letter to MP James Cartlidge, seen by the paper, Ms could said: "Internet affiliation records would update the potential of enforcement during a criminal investigation to work out the sender and recipient of a communication."
This could embody "a malicious message like those changed in cyberbullying".
New protections
Twitter has been criticised for not doing enough to tackle on-line abuse, and in Feb, then-chief government Dick Costolo admitted the corporate "sucks" at managing troll.
In its update, however, the firm same it had introduced a spread of latest protections in 2015, together with new tools for coverage abusive behaviour and a ban on the "promotion of terrorism".
A exponent for the NSPCC, a baby protection charity, same Twitter's new rules were "a long delinquent however terribly welcome step".
"We are urging social media firms to require decisive action to curb cyberbullying, that damages the lives of the many youngsters UN agency tell US it's nearly not possible to seek out a secure haven from it.
"Industry is currently waking-up to the current pernicious behaviour and it's sensible to some area unit taking a a lot of proactive approach to managing it."