Twitter has been trying to stop abusive behavior from the users on this social media platform and due to this they are limiting the account reach that are expected to engage in action like this. This new process from Twitter is expected to be introduced last week as it said and with this the offenders will get a notification which will feature that tweet reach has been reduced. The message that will be seen by the offender is we have detected possible abusive behavior on your account and here after only the followers will see your activity in Twitter. Now the penalty for this behavior will be left on your account for about twelve hours. It is still not known that how the violation will be considered as per different levels of abusive behavior. In fact there will be separate breakout for time which is built in warning message itself.
As per the limitation, anyone out of the current follower list from the user the tweets will not be visible. It also applicable for re-tweets as those who re-tweets banned user which will not extend apart from their followers. According to Twitter, if a user claims about using a term like retard and various others who have been noted were banned as considered to be political-based discussion. The bans will not happen due to result of one incident and the accounts behavior will be looked in a broad way. The restrictions are among Twitter’s strongest action to control the abusive behavior. This particular limitation for abuses is on temporary basis only, but the people will be allowed to use the Twitter with limited capacity. It also shows that this social media platform will go to a new direction from free speech that has been allowed till now. But there is also a time limit after which all the tweets will be back to their account and restriction will have any huge impact. It will just help to limit the tweet barrages and make the users to re-consider the things that they have shared.
This process could have been much better if Twitter had increased its time limit for the restriction of account. During this, the user can create another account and continue their abuse which is one of the things that Twit7ter has been working to deal with. Even though it is not one of the best moves from Twitter to control online abuses, it is the best they have done to deal with such an issue. In the other hand, Twitter is also planning to control trolling and abuses on this platform. Another new option which is called as safe search has been introduced which will help to get rid of Tweets that feature really sensitive content. It is expected to work on algorithm where the tweet responses will be hidden featuring abusive as well as low-quality retweets. We are still expected to see how these steps affect the Twitter users.