Twitter’s latest anti-abuse tools will keep eggs out of your mentions

Twitter’s long, halting, and frustrating road to reducing abuse has arrived somewhere useful. The company said today it would introduce new optional filters that will prevent you from being notified when certain accounts tweet at you. This includes accounts without profile photos — called “eggs” for the default egg picture given to new Twitter accounts — as well as accounts without verified phone numbers or email addresses.
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