Twitter lets you report multiple abusive tweets at the same time

One of the downsides of being public on Twitter is the possibility of being subjected to mean and offensive tweets. If you’ve been attacked, or bullied, or harassed on the platform, there’s now a new way to help build your case against your abusers. Previously, you could only report one offensive tweet at a time. Now, you can send multiple tweets in one report to help strengthen your case against trolls, giving you a better chance at fighting back.

Source: Twitter | Via: Android Police 

Twitter adds Message button to send tweets via DM

Making it easier for you to talk about specific tweets with specific people, Twitter is introducing a new Message button. This new feature appears alongside the like and retweet buttons, allowing you to send tweets via direct message. The feature is already rolling out to the Twitter app on both iOS and Android. Twitter has been adding new features to DM to take on bigger messaging services like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. According to the social network, the number of tweets shared privately on its service has increased by 200 percent in the past year.

Source: The Independent

Twitter adds image descriptions to mobile apps

Helping out the more visually impaired, Twitter is introducing image descriptions—also known as alternative text or alt text—into its Android and iOS apps. The social network wants their content to be as accessible to as wide an audience as possible. To enable the feature, head over to the accessibility settings of Twitter app and switch the slider to on for the “compose image descriptions” option. So, the next time you compose a tweet with an image, there’ll be an add description button. The descriptions can be up to 420 characters. For those who are visually impaired, you’ll see these descriptions via the assistive technology on your devices.

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Twitter drops TweetDeck’s Windows app, stops support by April

Twitter is looking to “enhance” the user experience of TweetDeck and has opted to stop support for its Windows app starting April 15^th. In conjunction with that, Twitter’s encouraging users to just head to the browser to use the app. And if they’re signed into Twitter or even its analytics website, you’ll be automatically be logged into TweetDeck. Some users will already be seeing this change but Twitter is currently working on making it available to everyone. For users, who are wary of making the change, Twitter is reminding its users that they can pin the site to your task bar via Chrome (Customize and control > More Tools > Add to task bar).

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