The way it works right now, a ton of random people can write nasty defamatory things about you and before the reporting system kicks in you can't really do muc

The way it works right now, a ton of random people can write nasty defamatory things about you and before the reporting system kicks in you can't really do much. And even then they won't take most stuff down. For example most profane insults are perfectly fine to Twitter. Blocking doesn't help much as it only blocks future replies from a given person. You'd probably want to try solving this problem without being too censorious. 90% of accounts I've been harassed by looked like they've been made exclusively for that purpose so I imagine just being tougher on fake accounts would solve most of the problem. Twitter is a niche social network with poor growth and a strong political slant so not buying the argument that it's so great for engagement. It just has a lot of mindshare in some circles. Could easily double the userbase.