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takyon writes:

Twitter has announced a series of new anti-abuse measures, following the leak of the CEO's admission that Twitter "sucks at dealing with abuse and trolls." It has extended its definition of violent threats to include "promoting violence against others." Punitive measures include temporary account suspensions, obligations to delete certain tweets, and requiring phone verification to reenable account access. The company is also devoting more resources to reviewing abuse complaints, and is experimenting with a feature that would automatically identify potentially abusive tweets by looking for similarities with past abuse.

In a potentially troll-enabling move, Twitter has added an option to allow users to receive direct (private) messages from users they don't follow. The feature is opt-in and could allow additional public engagement with businesses and journalists.

Finally, Twitter has shifted management of all non-U.S. user accounts to Twitter International, headquartered in Ireland. That means those users will be subject to stricter European Union data protection laws. Twitter's latest transparency report indicates that the U.S. government made 1,622 requests for information involving 3,299 accounts from July 1, 2014 through December 31. Twitter complied with 80% of the requests.