Dick Costolo, chief-executive officer of microblogging site Twitter, speaks at a conference. (Photo : www.businessinsider.com.au)
Twitter has made changes on their policy to take out and ban photos and videos that is deemed to be taken without the proper permission of the owner, PC World reported.
Twitter has released a formal statement saying that anyone may not post intimate photos or videos without the owner or the subject's consent. The social medial website also confirmed that they will still allow pornographic content but not on the profile, header or background images. If there are contents that are deemed a violation of Twitter's policy, it will be hidden from the public to view and the users who are posting such violations will have their account locked. Twitter users will also be required to delete the questionable content before they will be allowed to use twitter again.
According to The Verge, Twitter will only respond to those who have been reported through Twitter's existing tools for flagging abusive content. Twitter made the adjustments as they face increasing pressure from their users to stop and fight harassment in Twitter, most specifically against women.
In 2014, Twitter has implemented new tools to make it easier for users to report abuse, which significantly improved for the mobile users last February.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has taken the necessary steps to address the harassment issue with Twitter when The Verge has published internal memos with regards to the harassments. Costolo before taking actions has replied to The Verge via a statement that simply said "we suck at dealing with abuse."
On other news, social media website that is similar to Twitter, Reddit has recently installed a ban on revenge porn and stolen nude photos on its site.
