Twitter finds a new way to quash offensive tweets

Twitter is rolling out a new option that can hide offensive tweets from your view.

Revealed in a tweet posted Monday by ThinkUp CEO and blogger Anil Dash, the feature known as "quality filtering" is intended to "remove all Tweets from your notifications timeline that contain threats, offensive or abusive language, duplicate content, or are sent from suspicious accounts." The feature appears as an option on the iOS app's Notifications screen, where you can turn it on or off.

Twitter and Google reportedly just made a big deal to put tweets in search results

Twitter has once again inked a deal that will put tweets inside of Google search results, according to a report. Citing sources, Bloomberg says the two companies just worked out a business deal that gives the search giant full access to Twitter's firehose of tweets.