Twitter preps keyword filter to protect users from abusive tweets

Twitter is prepping a keyword-based tool that will shield its users from abusive tweets.
Bloomberg reports that the micro-blogging site has been working on the feature for around a year as it looks to find a technological solution to abuse on the site. The feature is compared to the one recently introduced by Instagram, though where that one removes messages deemed offensive, Twitter’s effort is more like an expansion of its ‘mute’ feature, which lets people avoid seeing tweets