Gillard urges Twitter to sign up to social media guidelines - The Australian

PRIME minister Julia Gillard has urged Twitter to accept government guidelines for social media as the site has been responsible for "so much of the damage" from trolling, where people post inflammatory remarks online.

Ms Gillard said the government had introduced new guidelines on complaints handling for social networking sites which "commits companies such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft" to work in accordance with the code.