Here’s how Twitter is finally attempting to cut down on harassment

[Wireless News]

Twitter has been under fire for the past several months for failing to provide adequate tools to fight harassment on its social network. The company has recently admitted to its shortcomings, and in an attempt to make the website a safer place to interact with other users, it’s testing a new “quality filter” to block notifications-that contain abusive or-offensive content. DON’T MISS:-Google quietly added an insanely cool security feature to Android Lollipop Anil Dash was the first to share the news after he was prompted by Twitter to turn the setting on after opening the app on his phone on Monday. Here is the description he was presented with: “Quality filtering aims to remove all Tweets from your notifications timeline

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