[Shaun]

It staggers me that there wasn't already something like this in place, Twitter's a playground for disgusting behaviour.

A petition calling on Twitter to add a "report abuse" button has received thousands of signatures.

It follows a deluge of abuse and rape threats received by Caroline Criado-Perez, who successfully campaigned for women to be included on UK banknotes.

MP Stella Creasy told the BBC she was "furious" Twitter had yet to do anything about Ms Criado-Perez's abuse.

Twitter UK's Tony Wang later said the company was "testing ways to simplify" reporting abuse.

Ms Criado-Perez, who had appeared in the media to campaign for women to feature on banknotes, said the abusive tweets began the day it was announced that author Jane Austen would appear on the newly designed £10 note.

She reported them to the police after receiving "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours" and said she had "stumbled into a nest of men who co-ordinate attacks on women".

Ms Criado-Perez, from Rutland, told the BBC she had also tried to contact Twitter's manager of journalism and news, Mark Luckie, about the rape threats she was receiving, but he did not respond and locked his tweets to become private.

She said the form that allows Twitter users to report abuse was not adequate - particularly when such a high volume of abuse was being received. "Twitter need to be on the side of the victims," she said.

An online petition has been started in response to the abuse Ms Criado-Perez received calling for Twitter to introduce a "report abuse" button. It had been signed by more than 9,000 people by 15:00 BST on Saturday.

Kim Graham from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, put the petition online at 09:00 BST after seeing abuse that Ms Criado-Perez had been getting. She told the BBC the "report abuse" button was something that came into her mind after finding it was "harder than it should be to report abuse".

The petition says: "Abuse on Twitter is common; sadly too common. And it frequently goes ignored. We need Twitter to recognise that its current reporting system is below required standards.

"The report abuse button needs to be accompanied by Twitter reviewing the T&C [terms and conditions] on abusive behaviour to reflect an awareness of the complexity of violence against women, and the multiple oppressions women face. It's time Twitter started protecting its users."

Ms Criado-Perez's cause has been supported by other prominent tweeters, including the journalists Caitlin Moran and Suzanne Moore and Independent columnist Owen Jones.

Ms Moran has called for a 24-hour Twitter boycott on 4 August to try to get Twitter to come up with an "anti-troll policy".

Labour MP Ms Creasy said: "This is not a technology crime - this is a hate crime. If they were doing it on the street, the police would act."

She told the BBC she had been chasing Twitter for the past 24 hours but they had not yet responded to her.

"I am absolutely furious with Twitter that they are not engaging in this at all," she said.

A Twitter spokesperson said: "We don't comment on individual accounts. However, we have rules which people agree to abide by when they sign up to Twitter. We will suspend accounts that once reported to us, are found to be in breach of our rules.

"We encourage users to report an account for violation of the Twitter rules by using one of our report forms."

The general manager of Twitter UK, Tony Wang, later tweeted that the company was "testing ways to simplify reporting, e.g. within a Tweet by using the 'Report Tweet' button in our iPhone app and on mobile web".

A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that "officers from Camden have received an allegation regarding comments made via a social network, that was reported on 25 July".

He added that "inquiries continue" but so far there had been "no arrests".

There have been some high profile arrests related to celebrities abused on Twitter, including a teenager arrested over the abuse of Great Britain's Olympic diver Tom Daley.

Guidelines published by the Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer in June said there should be a "high threshold for prosecution in cases involving communications which may be considered grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or false".

The petition: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petition...tton-to-tweets

[Verbal]

There is already a @report for spam button, which effectively does the same thing. I have seen countless accounts being closed down within minutes when people have reported accounts.

[Z]

They really ought to deal with it better, especially considering how many people have been prosecuted for things they've said on Twitter. I'd also really like it if Twitter updated their privacy options - I would quite like to have a private twitter but with the option to post public tweets, much like how Facebook lets you choose how to share your information.

[Novo]

Originally Posted by Zee

They really ought to deal with it better, especially considering how many people have been prosecuted for things they've said on Twitter. I'd also really like it if Twitter updated their privacy options - I would quite like to have a private twitter but with the option to post public tweets, much like how Facebook lets you choose how to share your information.

Yeah same, or the option to just post tweets to a certain list you are a member of

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by Zee

They really ought to deal with it better, especially considering how many people have been prosecuted for things they've said on Twitter. I'd also really like it if Twitter updated their privacy options - I would quite like to have a private twitter but with the option to post public tweets, much like how Facebook lets you choose how to share your information.

Have 2 accounts and use tweetdeck. It lets you post to either one or both. Problem solved.

[Z]

Originally Posted by CynicalHermit

Have 2 accounts and use tweetdeck. It lets you post to either one or both. Problem solved.

Well, not really, some tweets I want to reach my entire audience (follow list) and others I'd just want certain people to read; nobody is going to follow a second account

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by Zee

Well, not really, some tweets I want to reach my entire audience (follow list) and others I'd just want certain people to read; nobody is going to follow a second account

Was just an idea. Works for me. It doesnt really take much effort for a person to click follow. It allows you to have a locked account and to join in with the hashtags etc. when you feel like it.

[CaudleHalbard]

Hope nobody minds if I slightly divert this thread to ask a question? :

I have a Twitter account but have never used it. I know it doesn't work like Facebook. We are encouraged to send tweets to, for example, #bbuk

What exactly does this do? Does it mean BB receives a message or what.

Comments from Twitter gurus appreciated.

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by CaudleHalbard

Hope nobody minds if I slightly divert this thread to ask a question? :

I have a Twitter account but have never used it. I know it doesn't work like Facebook. We are encouraged to send tweets to, for example, #bbuk

What exactly does this do? Does it mean BB receives a message or what.

Comments from Twitter gurus appreciated.

There is always a list of hashtags (#) on https://twitter.com/ and if you have an unlocked account and put the relevant hashtag at the end it will appear in that list. For exampe you could say 'get Hazel out' #bbuk and it will be in the list and everyone who clicks on #bbuk will see it.

All account are @ something so big brother is @bbuk. If you put 'get hazel out' @bbuk they will see it

[CaudleHalbard]

Originally Posted by CynicalHermit

There is always a list of hashtags (#) on https://twitter.com/ and if you have an unlocked account and put the relevant hashtag at the end it will appear in that list. For exampe you could say 'get Hazel out' #bbuk and it will be in the list and everyone who clicks on #bbuk will see it.

All account are @ something so big brother is @bbuk. If you put 'get hazel out' @bbuk they will see it

Thanks. So to ensure BB see message, is it better to use the hash tag or better to use @bbuk ?

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by CaudleHalbard

Thanks. So to ensure BB see message, is it better to use the hash tag or better to use @bbuk ?

Yes if you dont use the hashtag or the @bbuk the only people who will see what you've wrote is the people who are following you. It really is great fun to be honest. I don't use facebook but I am always on twitter.

Edit: It is also a great source for breaking news and keeping track of general news that is going on. A lot of the news agencies get their stories from twitter. There is a famous case of when the Americans were doing an undercover operation to assassinate Bin Laden. The first the world new of it is when a local boy saw black helicopters flying over his house and tweeted about it.

[CaudleHalbard]

What would be your own preference: #bbuk or @bbuk

[Verbal]

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/...en_twitter.php

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by CaudleHalbard

What would be your own preference: #bbuk or @bbuk

I keep my account locked, I do have a second open account so that I can access the hashtags and so on, but I find I rarely use it. There is nothing stopping you using both. Most do.

[arista]

"Ms Criado-Perez, "


How does she know for Fact
its because of her view on the new 10 pound note


this could by a Mental Case Bloke or woman

[arista]

[Arrest Made After Twitter Rape Threats

A 21-year-old man is arrested after feminist banknote
campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez is subjected to rape threats on Twitter.]

http://news.sky.com/story/1121399/ar...r-rape-threats

[DanaC]

The sheer outrage some guys seem to feel at a woman speaking up for female equality is shocking at times.

Even if they're not speaking up for equality, but just taking part in something they feel is somehow theirs. Some of the stuff that gets said to female gamers, for example, when they dare to play online games is kind of frightening. Really, really vile stuff. As if a chick deciding to play Call of Duty is somehow a personal affront to them.

I've experienced some of that myself as a gamer.

[Z]

Originally Posted by DanaC

The sheer outrage some guys seem to feel at a woman speaking up for female equality is shocking at times.

Even if they're not speaking up for equality, but just taking part in something they feel is somehow theirs. Some of the stuff that gets said to female gamers, for example, when they dare to play online games is kind of frightening. Really, really vile stuff. As if a chick deciding to play Call of Duty is somehow a personal affront to them.

I've experienced some of that myself as a gamer.

Yeah gaming is horrifically sexist - so many insults and sleazy comments aimed at female gamers, it's unreal.

[arista]

As for a twitter
having a button
that means they have to Employ more staff,
Less profits.


Sign of The Times

[Kizzy]

The police need to add to the pressure groups here it's wasting police time wading through the web looking for these trolls.

[arista]

On Ch4News just now
a Lady high up in the the Twitter group Del Harvey Live from SF
claimed they have a reporting service.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

The police need to add to the pressure groups here it's wasting police time wading through the web looking for these trolls.

Two Punks have been Arrested

[Roy Mars III]

Originally Posted by Zee

Yeah gaming is horrifically sexist - so many insults and sleazy comments aimed at female gamers, it's unreal.

most of them come from 14 year old boys who are too afraid to talk to a girl in real life.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

most of them come from 14 year old boys who are too afraid to talk to a girl in real life.

A lot yes. But worryingly a lot of adult men engage in that stuff as well. I find it particularly disheartening when i discover that the man who just told me he hopes I get raped on the way home for the apparent sin of liking games turns out to be a husband and father.

[Verbal]

Twitter unveils full range of report abuse buttons