I know how terrible it feels when that is the only word of advice you get, especially because you're made to feel like you were in the wrong, and also, by no means should you change the way you have been interacting. That's something that people like my family would say. They'd say, “Well, just don't tweet publicly.” That shouldn't be the case.
We have just published a guide with the National Network to End Domestic Violence, NNEDV, which I will also share with the clerk for the purposes of the committee, that really highlights all of the options that you have. You can protect your tweets so that you're not tweeting publicly, but you can also do other things like not sharing your geo-location data if you are worried that somebody may be tracking your movements. Actually, on Twitter, by default we strike the geo-location data of your images, so unless you change the settings, if you were to share an image here right now, it wouldn't share that geo-location data, and that's something that we do precisely to protect the privacy of the users, but also to protect victims who have said time and time again that their location had been disclosed unnecessarily by using images.
We also recommend using your community to support you. That's why we launched the bystander reports. I know how triggering it can be to have to go through each one of those abusive tweets to report them yourself manually, and that's why we now enable the community to report on behalf of the person who is being abused. In that line, within the block function that I mentioned before, you don't have to manually block the people who are abusing you or making you feel uncomfortable. You can also ask others to block them, and you can now export the list of blocks. We designed that feature precisely with communities in mind that are being targeted on a regular basis. In my case, I asked my sisters to go through all of the accounts, block them, and then my sisters exported the list that I was able to import to my account. That's something you can do from your account settings on block.