Twitter's Taking Action on Ten Times The Number of Abusive Accounts

[engine]

Twitter, we know, has stepped up to deal with abuse, and the latest stats from the company indicate it's dealing with ten times the amount of abusive accounts compared to last year.
Some offenders continue to sign up with new accounts, but twitter is saying its systems are catching double the number of these people.

For some offenders that might not be classed as serial offenders, but simply go into a period of abuse, will find their accounts are set to limited functionality. This results in fewer complaints, and approximately 65% of these accounts change their ways and don't re-offend.

[blog.twitter.com...]

[tangor]

There's no doubt that t is acting.... but there is some doubt in the criteria being used for action. Let's just say t is nuking accounts right and left. :)

[keyplyr]

I've been trying to get a hacked account taken down for months (friend's account.)

The process is a pre-fielded form. The info I'm try to submit doesn't match the feilds, so it keeps getting rejected.

So much for nuking accounts.

[Writerly]

It seems to be a great attempt gone wrong. I read somewhere that even entire accounts are now being marked as "sensitive", even though if they don't contain abusive content at all. So they should definitely change the criteria somehow.