Twitter has plans to help you filter out tweets

Now Bloomberg says help is on the way, with a new keyword-filtering tool to allow users to remain blissfully unaware of the vitriol being sent in their direction. Swearwords and racial slurs could be blocked from a user's notifications screen, for example.

This is according to "people familiar with the matter" rather than Twitter itself, so there's nothing official yet, but we know the social network has been working on improving its anti-harassment features for some time. The fruits of those labours are apparently almost ready.

Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones was one of the latest high-profile celebrities to be targeted by trolls on Twitter and she briefly quit the platform in response. Many other stars from all walks of life have also been forced off the network because of the abuse coming their way.

That's obviously not a good look for Twitter and CEO Jack Dorsey is said to have made tackling abuse one of his top priorities. The keyword filtering tool has been around a year in the making, Bloomberg says.