Twitter can be a helpful source of news, information and advice. Twitter can also be annoying, with troll accounts that tweet using hateful words. The site can also be the source of spoilers, posts that tell what happens in a movie or sporting event that you plan to watch. The latest updates to Twitter may solve these problems. The updates let the user block anonymous accounts from appearing in Notifications. Users can also block keywords so that tweets with certain words do not appear in their Twitter stream. Everyone who signs up for Twitter is given an image of an egg as a profile photo until a different photo is added to the account. Often, egg accounts are owned by spammers who set up anonymous accounts. Now, you can block those egg accounts so they do not appear in your Notifications. Updates to Twitter also let you control which accounts appear in your Notifications. You can block Notifications from anonymous accounts and from those who have not added a profile picture. And, you can block accounts that do not have a verified phone number or email account. Anyone can set up a Twitter account using a fake email address and profile picture. But faking a phone number is more difficult. If you block anonymous accounts, you will not see tweets in your Notifications from such accounts, even if they use your name.
Title: Twitter Update Lets Users Block People and Words
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1736/twitter_block.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Twitter Update Lets Users Block People and Words' data-article-id='2254'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7479'>Twitter can be a helpful source of news, information and advice.</span> <span data-start-time='7479' data-end-time='17750'>Twitter can also be annoying, with troll accounts that tweet using hateful words.</span> <span data-start-time='17750' data-end-time='33042'>The site can also be the source of spoilers, posts that tell what happens in a movie or sporting event that you plan to watch.</span> <span data-start-time='33042' data-end-time='39979'>The latest updates to Twitter may solve these problems.</span> <span data-start-time='39979' data-end-time='49500'>The updates let the user block anonymous accounts from appearing in Notifications.</span> <span data-start-time='49500' data-end-time='62708'>Users can also block keywords so that tweets with certain words do not appear in their Twitter stream.</span> <span data-start-time='62708' data-end-time='78021'>Everyone who signs up for Twitter is given an image of an egg as a profile photo until a different photo is added to the account.</span> <span data-start-time='78021' data-end-time='86896'>Often, egg accounts are owned by spammers who set up anonymous accounts.</span> <span data-start-time='86896' data-end-time='96583'>Now, you can block those egg accounts so they do not appear in your Notifications.</span> <span data-start-time='96583' data-end-time='106167'>Updates to Twitter also let you control which accounts appear in your Notifications.</span> <span data-start-time='106167' data-end-time='116958'>You can block Notifications from anonymous accounts and from those who have not added a profile picture.</span> <span data-start-time='116958' data-end-time='126417'>And, you can block accounts that do not have a verified phone number or email account.</span> <span data-start-time='126417' data-end-time='135354'>Anyone can set up a Twitter account using a fake email address and profile picture.</span> <span data-start-time='135354' data-end-time='140229'>But faking a phone number is more difficult.</span> <span data-start-time='140229' data-end-time='153229'>If you block anonymous accounts, you will not see tweets in your Notifications from such accounts, even if they use your name.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' 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