Twitter is ahead of the curve in many respects, always keeping users engaged with updates like a “buy button” and updating its search function.  These are just a few reasons why the social media platform has cemented itself firmly as a mainstay in the social media universe, with about 1 billion registered users– disregarding multiple accounts per person, that’s a seventh of the world’s population.

Although, as with anything that impacts our culture in such a colossal way, Twitter has it’s fair share of issues and drawbacks.

T. C. Sottek writes for The Verge, and lambastes Twitter for causing “some of the worst harassment on the web” and for seemingly ignoring what is such an easy fix.

It’s a terrible hassle that’s been around for a long time, and Twitter still hasn’t fixed it. And with more random [users] than ever showing up to harass people thanks to miserable online gangs like Gamergate, it’s past due. Making promises to reduce the headache of reporting abusers is a good step, but not if you ignore the basic problems that have plagued your platform for years.

Twitter has taken some steps in order to make its service a balanced and safe place, including making it easier to report harassment and preventing interaction with blocked users, but this has not removed the problem, and it certainly seems like there is more that can be done.  “[Twitter is] still failing on a very basic level to protect its users,” writes Sottek.  “Here’s just one of Twitter’s broken features: when you block someone and report them on one Twitter client, their tweets will still show up in timelines on other instances of Twitter.”  This does appear to be an easy fix, so here’s hoping it gets addressed soon.

Do you think this is a big problem that Twitter needs to address?  Or is the problem being blown out of proportion?  Tweet your comments, questions or concerns to @OPUSfidelis!