[mikeyouse]

Dick Costolo talked about it on their most recent call;

    We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform
    and we've sucked at it for years. It's no secret and the
    rest of the world talks about it every day. We lose core 
    user after core user by not addressing simple trolling 
    issues that they face every day.

    I'm frankly ashamed of how poorly we've dealt with this 
    issue during my tenure as CEO. It's absurd. There's no 
    excuse for it. I take full responsibility for not being 
    more aggressive on this front. It's nobody else's fault 
    but mine, and it's embarrassing.

    We're going to start kicking these people off right and
    left and making sure that when they issue their ridiculous
    attacks, nobody hears them.

    Everybody on the leadership team knows this is vital.

Whether or not they come up with a solution or prioritize it with their technical team remains to be seen, but I think it's a very good start that the CEO has claimed personal responsibility for the issue.

From: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-ceo-sent-me...

[MBCook]

Despite this being s problem for YEARS they are only now admitting it and have only started to take anise reports semi-seriously.

So far it looks like too-little-too-late PR and nothing more.

[rtpg]

You don't think they're going to start doing something? I think Twitter realises that they've lost a lot of high-profile people as users because of this.

At least for me, one of the great things about Twitter is being able to interact with otherwise inapproachable people (if only due to the friction of sending/replying to e-mail). Even if it's just to make a bad pun. Having that poisoned by people parroting "ethics in video game journalism" makes me pretty sad.