Twitter’s long, halting, and frustrating road to reducing abuse has arrived somewhere useful. The company said today it would introduce new optional filters that will prevent you from being notified when certain accounts tweet at you. This includes accounts without profile photos — called “eggs” for the default egg picture given to new Twitter accounts — as well as accounts without verified phone numbers or email addresses.
It may sound like a minor thing, but the move shows Twitter moving gradually to increase the friction for anyone who wants to use the platform for spam and abuse. By forcing users to upload photos and verify phone numbers and email addresses if they hope to be seen by their targets, Twitter is making would-be...
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