Twitter reveals policy to prevent users who BAN account from creating new account

ByEsther Vargas

On Twitter users can use the service pleasantly,Block annoying accountsOr,Report annoying behaviorIt is supposed to be able to do, furthermore "mute"Or"block"You can prevent tweets from abusing or harassing users from appearing on the timeline using features such as. In addition to these, on Twitter, we reveal that we are doing "deterrence of harassing account creation", "safe search", "coping with what seems to be harassing or coping with low quality tweets".

An Update on Safety | Twitter Blogs
https://blog.twitter.com/2017/an-update-on-safety

In order to use with confidence (current situation) | Twitter Blogs
https://blog.twitter.com/ja/2017/0208safety

· Preventing harassment account creation
Measures are taken to prevent users who have been BAN accounts from creating new accounts. Twitter describes only about this as "It will make it possible for people who stopped the account permanently to create a new account," its details are unknown, but the account was BANed When it is recognized as a user, it seems that it is not possible to create a new account. By doing this, Twitter says, "You can reduce the case of creating accounts only for abuses and harassment," he says.

· SafeSearch
"Safe search" function removes tweets from sensitive content and blocked accounts from search results. Although it will not be displayed in the search result, you can browse if you want to find the corresponding tweet. As for the safe search function,Help centerIt is guided by.

· Dealing with tweets that seem to be harassing or low quality tweets
It seems that we have also begun measures to distinguish harassed tweets and low quality reply tweets (reply) to suppress the display, and on the contrary, to display highly relevant conversations in noticeable places. It will not stop you being able to view tweets whose display has been suppressed.

The less relevant tweets are likely to be seen from "Show less relevant replies".


We plan to begin offering "tweets that seems to be harassing and coping with low quality tweets" in the next few weeks.