Twitter eases account suspension appeal for users

Twitter will now allow users, suspended for violating its guidelines, appeal the decision directly within its platform. Twitter claimed the new in-app feature will cut down response time by 60 per cent. Twitter can suspend accounts for being fake, abusive, threatening or for spamming or impersonating someone. Twitter is working on how to label tweets that violate the company's abuse terms. Twitter can suspend account

Twitter claimed the new in-app feature will cut down response time by 60 per cent.

"We added a way for people to appeal our decision in the app and have been able to get back to people 60 per cent faster than before," it said.

Twitter can suspend accounts for being fake, abusive, threatening or for spamming or impersonating someone.

Twitter is also considering to label tweets that violate its rules but which should remain on the platform because they're in the public interest.

In an interview with The Washington Post last week, Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's Head of Legal, Policy and Trust, said Twitter is working on how to label tweets that violate the company's abuse terms.