Since Twitter CEO Dick Costolo threw the anti-abuse gauntlet down in February, his service has responded with so many updates to apps, policies, and moderation that they've begun to blur together. But rest assured, the newest announced change to the service is a big one, because it's the first to put the rule-breaking onus on users themselves.
We'd previously gotten wind of changes that would force rule-breaking Twitterers to verify a phone number in order to resume service, and that facet was formally announced in today's announcement about "combating abuse." Should a user violate Twitter's rules, according to the update, he or she will receive a lock-out notice for the account in question along with a countdown timer. That timer can be bypassed should users "complete additional tasks" to get the account back online.
One of those is mobile phone number verification—and upon completing that, users are then instructed to delete their own offending tweets in order to finish the make-good process and come back online (all while greeted with a reminder of Twitter rules about harassment and threats). In other words, Twitter is now rubbing bad tweets in users' noses.
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