Making Twitter a safer place is our primary focus. We stand for freedom of expression and people being able to see all sides of any topic. That’s put in jeopardy when abuse and harassment stifle and silence those voices. We won’t tolerate it and we’re launching new efforts to stop it.

Twitter is the fastest way to see what’s happening and what everyone is talking about. What makes Twitter great is that it’s open to everyone and every opinion. We’ve seen a growing trend of people taking advantage of that openness and using Twitter to be abusive to others.

In response to today’s BuzzFeed story on safety, we were contacted just last night for comment and obviously had not seen any part of the story until we read it today. We feel there are inaccuracies in the details and unfair portrayals but rather than go back and forth with BuzzFeed, we are going to continue our work on making Twitter a safer place. There is a lot of work to do but please know we are committed, focused, and will have updates to share soon.

More information about how we protect your account and the challenges all websites face whenever another website is breached.

Now you can report up to five Tweets at a time.

Bringing together experts in safety and free expression to guide Twitter’s safety products, policies, and programs.

An update on Twitter Rules, and how we’re fighting abuse

Our new Safety Center is your place to learn all about how to be safe online.

You can now import lists of accounts that other Twitter users block, and export and share your own block list.

We are refining our policies to expand the kinds of content we can act against and have made more updates to limit the reach of abuse on our platform.