Rest of the Day: Twitter Takes More Steps to End Harassment
Twitter has been criticized for years for its lax response to the abusive behavior that has plagued the site. Gradually, they added new features to protect users, and today they are taking it one step further. About this and much more in today’s news.
- Twitter says that recidivists who have already been banned will find it harder to rejoin the service. The details of how this works are a little vague because they don’t want to “play the system.” There is also a new “safe search” that does not include offending tweets in the search results, and now inappropriate replies to a tweet will be hidden unless you click on “show less relevant replies”. Thus, you can simply ignore people who send you spam with angry or profanity. [Twitter blog via Recode ]
- Creative Commons has a new search engine to help you find photos that you can use for free. [TechCrunch]
- YouTube opens up mobile live streaming to more users. But not everyone can use it yet: only people with more than 10,000 subscribers can use this feature. Depending on how it is used and how many celebrities YouTube is receiving mobile streaming, it is likely to impact its accessibility to regular YouTube users. [The Next Web]
- Waze is expanding its carpool service to more California cities. It looks more like a real carpool than Uber, literally bringing people with the same rides together. [The Verge]
- Fish fat? More like snake oil. Here’s even more evidence that fish oil is more worthless than its healthy reputation suggests. [Gizmodo]