There are probably flaws in these proposals I’m missing but why can’t twitter :

1) Create a filter switch to mute tweets from accounts created with a week, month.. whatever.

2) Stop tweets except for those accounts you are following and those following you (in conjunction with 1)

I must admit though that I’m mystified as to why people take on-line insults from complete strangers seriously.
Credible threats are a different matter. Everybody should be aware they’re not untraceable when they post stuff on the internet.

I remember this from 2011. Two “neds” from Dundee were feeling left out after watching the riots in England. They were urging people to meet and initiate a riot in Dundee. The police turned up at their door…. 4 years in jail.
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“Dundee teenagers locked up for Facebook riot threats
12 December 2011

Two teenagers who used Facebook to try to start a riot in a Scottish city have been locked up for three years each.
Shawn Divin, 16, and Jordan McGinley, 18, were administrators of a Facebook page called “Riot in the toon” which urged people to “kill some daftys”.
The Dundee riot page was published during the summer’s unrest in England.
Divin, who was described as an inmate at Polmont youth offenders institute, and McGinley, from Dundee, had earlier pleaded guilty to breaching the peace.
Sheriff Elizabeth Munro sentenced Divin to a total of four years and three months, which included one year for breaching a previous probation order and three months for breaching his bail by inciting riots.”
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Not necessarily https://t.co/eKSYSz4O3p

But “new atheists” don’t have to resort to trashing people like Leslie Jones. I agree that the regressive left are repulsive, and are just as bad as Islamists, in their attitude to ex-Muslims, and also progressive Muslims like Maajid Nawaz. Remember, it is the likes of CJ Werleman and Nathan Lean who incite hatred and death threats towards these groups.

That is due to the sheer volume of users. If they don’t use some kind of algorithm, then what you have is nothing because there simply would not enough staff to investigate the claims coming from an average user base that stands currently at 310,000,000. There is actually math you can do these days to figure out how much staff you would need to cover a user base of X size. It won’t be small.

And because an algorithm s the most effective method for managing a user base of that size but can exercise no human judgement and thus easily circumvented and ripe for abuse, it is by nature flawed. Unless you have some better method to maintain twitter’s status as a free service while being able to check every submitted report for validity, one has to be realistic.