Twitter to trolls: Say goodbye to your toxic lists

It’s about time, Twitter!

A full decade after launching lists, Twitter’s handy feature for following groups of people, the company is finally addressing the tool’s dark side: harassment. The service will now allow users to flag lists as abusive, Twitter announced Monday, making it the first time the company has had a reporting function specifically for lists. 

With the update, which is available on iOS now and will be on Android and Twitter’s website “soon,”  users are able to report a list the same way they might report an individual tweet. From the list page, the “…” menu will have a “Report” option, which then allows you to flag the list to Twitter. Read more…

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