Category: trolling
Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions
Twitter is looking at adding new features that could help users who are facing abusive situations on its platform as a result of unwanted attention pile-ons, such as when a tweet goes viral for a reason they didn’t expect and a full firehose of counter tweets get blasted their way.…
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Twitch ‘proactively’ removed a police emote to prevent potential abuse
Twitch has removed an emote that featured an image of a cartoon character dressed as a police officer blowing a whistle. "TwitchCop," as the emoticon was known as, was a global emote Twitch viewers could use in chat across all of the platform's chann… Source
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