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Twitter is finally taking online harassment seriously and cracking down with three new features we all know it's the place to be for breaking news snarky commentary and gifs or gifts depending on who you are but there's also a lot of ugly stuff on it too now in a Twitter blog post that's more than 140 characters the first thing they're doing is stopping the creation of new abusive accounts by taking steps to identify people who have been permanently suspended and stopped them from trading these new accounts now second thing then working on what they call a safe search to remove tweets that contain potentially sensitive content kind of like Brian Cooley's face they're also removing tweets from blocked and muted accounts from search results and the third thing collapsing potentially abusive low-quality replies so that the relevant conversations from an initial tweet are brought forward but you'll still be able to seek them out if you're into all that ugly stuff that makes you warm and fuzzy inside now Twitter has been constantly criticized for doing nothing about abuse but these are finally some real steps that should make a difference and really they should have been done years ago so sorry trolls life got harder for you on Twitter