Here’s how you can stop Twitter trolls

San Francisco-based company introduces a new feature called ‘quality filter’

Twitter has introduced a new way for users to lose internet trolls from their newsfeed with something called the ‘quality filter’.

In a blog post on Thursday, the social media site announced that new filter would allow Twitterati to avoid trolls. “The filter can improve the quality of tweets you see by using a variety of signals, such as account origin and behaviour,” the company said.



“Turning it on filters lower-quality content, like duplicate tweets or content that appears to be automated, from your notifications and other parts of your Twitter experience,” the company added. However, the social media site said that the new feature did not filter content from people you follow or accounts you’ve recently interacted with.

The San Francisco-based company also made the headlines in the news recently by suspending up to 360,000 accounts since the middle of 2015 for violating rules against violent threats and promoting terrorism. According to AFP, daily suspensions of accounts are up more than 80 per cent since last year and have spiked in the immediate aftermath of terror attacks.



Twitter said that it had been getting quicker at identifying extremist content and shutting down accounts involved, resulting in a marked decrease in the number of followers attracted while posts were active.

Moves have been made to make it tougher for people behind suspendeded accounts to immediately return to Twitter and teams reviewing reports of suspected terror content have been expanded. Like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube also heavily rely  on users to point out posts that violate standards or policies.