Twitter updated its efforts to enable users to avoid seeing abusive content and content they have no interest in, highlighted by expanding its mute feature to notifications.
The social network said in a blog post that users will be able to mute keywords, phrases and entire conversations from their notifications, with the feature ?rolling out to everyone in the coming days.?

Twitter added:
Our hateful conduct policy prohibits specific conduct that targets people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or disease. Today we?re giving you a more direct way to report this type of conduct for yourself, or for others, whenever you see it happening. This will improve our ability to process these reports, which helps reduce the burden on the person experiencing the abuse and helps to strengthen a culture of collective support on Twitter. And finally, on enforcement, we?ve retrained all of our support teams on our policies, including special sessions on cultural and historical contextualization of hateful conduct, and implemented an ongoing refresher program. We?ve also improved our internal tools and systems in order to deal more effectively with this conduct when it?s reported to us. Our goal is a faster and more transparent process.
We don?t expect these announcements to suddenly remove abusive conduct from Twitter. No single action by us would do that. Instead we commit to rapidly i...