Twitter adds more safety tools, will curb abusive accounts

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment.

Not that long ago, in fact, Twitter required the targets of abuse to make such reports themselves; it refused to take reports from friends, family or other third parties.

[...] people will be able to filter out accounts without a profile photo, or unverified email addresses or phone numbers.