Twitter aborts anti-abuse tool amidst complaints it facilitated abuse

Twitter’s bid to shed itself of a reputation for abuse and trolling has come unstuck at the first hurdle after a feature announced with much fanfare just six days ago was found to encourage abuse rather than curtail it.
In an abrupt volte-face Twitter announced that it would cease notifying members when another user added them to a list following complaints that trolls and malicious users were able to directly notify their abuse targets by adding them to obscenely named lists.
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