Twitter update makes it easier to block many people at once

Twitter is once again stepping up its efforts to help users facing harassment on its social network.

The company just added new tools that make it easier for people to block several people at once. With the update, users are now able to share lists of accounts they have blocked and make them available to other users

In a blog post Wednesday, Twitter User Safety Engineer Xiaoyun Zhang said that the latest update was an expansion of the platform's existing mute and block tools.

"While many users find them useful, we also recognize that some users — those who experience high volumes of unwanted interactions on Twitter — need more sophisticated tools," Zhang wrote. "We also hope these advanced blocking tools will prove useful to the developer community to further improve users’ experience." Read more...