For months -- no wait,years --Twitter(TWTR) users have been vying for a safer and more friendly environment. Back in 2016, a bidding war seemingly dissipated when buyers like sales force(CRM) backed out partly because of the hostile environment that occupies the platform. Trolls and haters ran abound, with little in the way to prevent them from wreaking written havoc on others.

But apparently, that's all about to change. Ed Ho, the VP of engineering at Twitter, sent off a string of tweets addressing the harassment issues. Combining the tweets, we get:

"Making Twitter a safer place is our primary focus and we are now moving with more urgency than ever. We heard you, we didn't move fast enough last year; now we're thinking about progress in days and hours not weeks and months. We'll be rolling out a number of product changes in the days ahead. Some changes will be visible and some will be less so."

Ho went on to say that one of the first issues they'll resolve centers around muting, blocking and creating new accounts for offenders."This week, we'll tackle long overdue fixes to mute/block and stopping repeat offenders from creating new accounts," he said. At this point, the company has really been struggling to grow its monthly active users metric. On the plus side though, it hasn't posted a net-loss in users.

This seems like a sensible first step when looking at how to improve the platform. It's hard to deny the service and value that Twitter provides and it's understandable why shareholders feel the stock has upside.
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Source : https://www.thestreet.com/amp/story/13973560/1/are-we-about-to-see-a-new-twitter-in-2017-tech-roundup.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C2315606109

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