Sometime in the near future, you might check your Twitter account and notice that something is missing, something is wonderfully missing – trolls.  Twitter announced policy changes that the company hopes will limit abuse on its social network.

“We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years,” Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wrote in a memo for employees of the social media network earlier this year.  “It’s no secret and the rest of the world talks about it every day.  We lose core user after core user by not addressing simple trolling issues that they face every day.”

Twitter’s updated abuse policy is hoped to make it tougher for trolls to flood the network with threats and harassment.  It expands the definition of “violent threats” to include indirect threats and tweets that promote violence.  Twitter also created a tool that will automatically flag tweets that contain trigger-words previously identified as abusive, as well as accounts that fit a profile of known abusers.

Are you paying attention, Facebook?