But the move comes as the company faces pressure over its self-service advertising tools, which have been used to troll and harass users of the site even after it announced a crackdown on harassment.
The latest overhaul of Twitter's safety features comes after a leaked memo from the company's chief executive, Dick Costolo, laid out in frank language its failures to get on top of harassment on the site.
Zoe Quinn, the game developer whose online harassment eventually spawned the anti-feminist GamerGate movement, said it was "nice to see Twitter trying to address this issue".
Twitter has empowered feminists to monitor whether its own harassment policies are enforced – and to see whether the "uninhibited online speech" of one group is preventing the uninhibited online speech of another.
This is the kernel at the heart of so many harassment cases: the stalker will insist, with an air of honest bafflement, that they are simply exercising their right to free speech.
'When womanhood occurs the girls are more vulnerable to sexual harassment,' says Jaya Jaikodi, who's been working at Mobility India for 12 years.
Although most articles made it clear that Smart involved the police only after experiencing a range of harassment every day for a month, the headlines pushed the wolf-whistling to the foreground.
One article even opened with the words: "Police were called in to investigate a construction firm after a 23-year-old woman accused builders of sexual harassment – for WOLF-WHISTLING".
When he gave a speech at the Pits and Perverts benefit, his exact words were: "You have worn our badge, Coal Not Dole, and you know what harassment means, as we do.
"This is not the first time people who have attempted to leave Sri Lanka illegally have been returned to Sri Lanka and thousands of those people are now living completely normal lives free from harassment," he said.
Many students I've spoken to say their experience of sexual harassment was no worse on their placement than anywhere else – but language barriers heightened feelings of vulnerability.
