Twitter will monitor the accounts of 50 top black players in an attempt to clamp down on the racial abuse suffered by the likes of Paul Pogba and Tammy Abraham.
Last season many players staged a 24-hour boycott of social media, with Twitter now electing to change its policy as a consequence.
As reported by The Times, Twitter will undertake a more proactive approach to tackling racism, which will include regularly checking the posts of 50 high-profile black players.
Previously Twitter would only review racist and abusive tweets if they had been reported.
Manchester United were sickened at comments directed at Paul Pogba after the midfielder missed a penalty against Wolves on Monday night.
United are set for face-to-face talks with Twitter representatives following the abuse aimed at Pogba.
Pogba's team-mates Harry Maguire and Marcus Rashford urged for Twitter to take greater action against offenders.
Chelsea's Abraham and Reading's Yakou Meite have also been targets of racial abuse.
Representatives are urging players to alter their Twitter preferences in the wake of recent incidents, with some players effectively blocking comments, while others have chosen to only receive notifications from accounts that they follow.
Simltyz
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Indeed black people are.very, very proud of their colour. But those racists (I hope you are not one of them as your comment appear to suggest so) do not even mention black directly in their racial abuses, instead in their perception, black is bad so they try to shout insulting descriptions such as baboon, monkey and such non-human things in response to something he/she feels the black person has done wrong. This can be provocative. What if someone liken a white person to a hyena or an albino (which would be a double abuse unfortunately), would you expect him or her to just brush off? Both FIFA and IAAF say no racial abuse in sport, why do disagree with them?
Chelasani
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what about remaining players...? there many low profile players who suffered racism on social media, how can you stop that. some players posting the screenshots of how racists are disturbing them and their families... now they started taking measures because in this case it is a high profile player. treat every human same they too are subjected to even worse racism....
AJSkyface2099
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We as humans have preferences and as such is embedded in our DNA. You twitch when you meet someone of different ideas or beliefs but to be stupid enough to act on it and disrespect them should never be a accepted! Racist are just insecure just like an abusive husband or any bully 🤔