Twitter's purpose is to serve the public conversation. Violence, harassment and other similar types of behavior discourage people from expressing themselves, and ultimately diminish the value of global public conversation. These rules are to ensure all people can participate in the public conversation freely and safely.

For violating any of the platforms rules, your account could get suspended temporarily and in some cases permanently. Read full platform rules in their community guidelines page.

Examples of data being monitored:

• How to report a tweet
  1. Click the three in the top right of the tweet.
  2. Click report tweet.
  3. Select It’s abusive or harmful.
  4. Next, they’ll ask you to provide more information about the issue you’re reporting. We may also ask you to select additional Tweets from the account you’re reporting so we have better context to evaluate your report.
  5. They will include the text of the Tweets you reported in our follow-up emails and notifications to you. To opt-out of receiving this information, please uncheck the box, next to Updates about this report can show these Tweets.
  6. Once you’ve submitted your report, they’ll provide recommendations for additional actions you can take to improve your Twitter experience.

• How to report an account
  1. Go to the account profile and click or tap the overflow icon
  2. Click report.
  3. Select It’s abusive or harmful.
  4. Next, they’ll ask you to provide additional information about the issue you’re reporting. We may also ask you to select Tweets from that account so we have better context to evaluate your report.
  5. We will include the text of the Tweets you reported in our follow-up emails and notifications to you. To opt-out of receiving this information, please uncheck the box next to Updates about this report can show these Tweets.
  6. Once you’ve submitted your report, they’ll provide recommendations for additional actions you can take to improve your Twitter experience.

• How to report a conversation / message
  1. Click into the Direct Message conversation and find the message you’d like to report. (To report the entire conversation, click the more icon)
  2. Hover over the message and click the Report message icon when it appears.
  3. You can also click on the information icon and select Report @username.
  4. If you select It's abusive or harmful, they’ll ask you to provide additional information about the issue you’re reporting. We may also ask you to select additional messages from the account you’re reporting so we have better context to evaluate your report.
  5. Once you’ve submitted your report, we’ll provide recommendations for additional actions you can take to improve your Twitter experience.
     Note: Additionally, you have the option of reporting a conversation from a group message.