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One type of abuse that seems oddly popular here in Mexico is via a trending topic. I suspect that some kind of mafia group with a lot of followers are testing t
by rsoto 10y ago
One type of abuse that seems oddly popular here in Mexico is via a trending topic. I suspect that some kind of mafia group with a lot of followers are testing their weapons (since creating a trending topic is a very good business) by insulting women, minorities and even disabled people.
Blocking, muting and reporting users isn't the answer when you have right in your face a hateful hashtag. You could look for the one who started the trending topic and report it, but with thousands of mentions, you'll have to scroll a lot.
I actually thought this "progress" was about reporting trending topics, or finding the one who started it. And then, once again, we see twitter turning the blind eye.
- slouch 10y agoI don't even know how to see the trending topics while mobile. To say that a list of topics on a web version of twitter only is worse than targeted abuse from users seems silly to me. I think it should be trivial to block the trending topics list from loading in your browser, even.
- rsoto 10y agoOn mobile, you go to search to see the trending topics.
- slouch 10y agoOh, there it is. When I tap the search icon, I'm tapping again on the input box immediately to bring up my saved searches, so I'm not focusing on that trending list (or seeing it most times) because I'm waiting for my saved searches to appear.