Twitter takes the fight to abusers with new quality filter

Twitter's war on abuse has begun

In one of its first moves in its crackdown on harassment and abusive tweets, the service is rolling out a quality filter, which removes unwanted tweets from a user's view.

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Twitter hasn't made a formal announcement about the feature, although many users, including some Mashable staff, have reported seeing the option to turn on the new content filter. Twitter also confirmed to Mashable that the new filter is now rolling out to all verified users (those with the blue checkmark next to their names). Read more...

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