Twitter, the social media site, is under pressure in Britain to make it easier for Internet users to report abuse after more than 30,000 people petitioned it over the case of a feminist campaigner who says she was repeatedly threatened with rape.<\/p>\n
Caroline Criado-Perez helped lobby the Bank of England to make a woman, 19th century novelist Jane Austen, the new face on the country’s 10 pound note, to defuse criticism that women were under-represented on the currency.<\/p>\n
She was then “targeted repeatedly with rape threats” by ill-wishers objecting to her activity, according to an online petition, which called on Twitter to urgently add a ‘report abuse’ button to its service.<\/p>\n
Some users proposed a one-day boycott of Twitter to protest against what they said was its failure to address the issue.<\/p>\n
Twitter’s General Manager for the UK Tony Wang promised to suspend all accounts found to be in breach of its rules.<\/p>\n
“We take online abuse seriously,” he wrote, saying the company was testing ways to simplify reporting of abuse.<\/p>\n
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