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If all your hashtags, retweets and favourites seem overwhelming, Twitter has a solution.

The site has today rolled out a new feature dubbed 'Highlights', aimed at helping users sift through the large number of tweets on their feed each day. 

The service provides a twice-daily summary 'of the best tweets for you, delivered via rich push notification,' Twitter's Gordon Luk said in a blog post. 

Twitter has rolled out a new feature aimed at helping users sift through the large number of tweets on their feed each day.

Twitter users who opt into the service on their Android device can will see a new Highlights section in a push notification.  

A push notification leads to an area where users can can browse popular tweets from people they know, as well as trending stories.

'We want to help you get the most out of Twitter, no matter how much time you spend with it,' said Luk. 

'While your home timeline is a great place to browse through and engage with tweets, we know it can be challenging to find the time to get through everything.'

To enable the feature on your account, launch the official Twitter app on Android and bring up the three-dot icon in the top-right corner of your screen 

Select Settings from the drop-down, and then press on your account name. Tap on Mobile Notifications. Scroll down until you find the new option titled Highlights and press on it. 

The move is the latest by Twitter to boost engagement for its members amid growth which is slower than some rival social networks. 

'We look at things like the accounts and conversations that are popular among people you follow, tweets from people you're closely tied to, topics and events that are trending in your area or within your network, and people that are popular or trending among people you follow,' Luk said.

Highlights is being rolled out first in English for people using Android-powered devices, which can be activated in user settings.

'We're refining the experience on Android first and will consider bringing Highlights to other platforms in the future,' Luk added.

Earlier this week, Twitter announced that abusive accounts will now be temporarily locked until a phone number or similar is added.

The move is the latest by Twitter to boost engagement for its users amid growth which is slower than expected

An algorithm will also automatically remove abuse before you even see it.

Twitter already asks users who violate its abuse guidelines to delete content, and can suspend accounts permanently if they don't. 

But under the new changes, Twitter has added a middle-ground. Its new enforcement option lets the support team temporarily lock abusive accounts for a set period of time, up to 12 hours.

In its last quarterly update, Twitter said the number of active monthly users of the San Francisco-based one-to-many messaging service monthly grew to 288 million.

This is just four million more than in the previous quarter. Twitter reports its results for the first quarter next week. 

TWITTER'S LATEST SAFETY UPDATES

Twitter's chief executive Dick Costolo recently said his site 'sucks at dealing with abuse and trolls'.

In a memo, Mr Costolo said he is embarrassed by the way the company handles abuse and that it must take stronger action.

In December, a blog post titled 'Building a safer Twitter' revealed Twitter is working on ways to make it easier to block and report abuse. 

For months Twitter has been rolling out features designed to rid the site of the scourge of trolls

The site has since improved the reporting process to make it more mobile-friendly, auto-populated fields, and it now requires less initial information. 

It has also improved the ways in which abuse can be reported to law enforcement.  

Last month, the site took aim at the rising levels of revenge porn and stolen nude photos posted to the social network.

Its rules now say that users must not 'post intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed without the subject's consent'.

Twitter said an affected user can report a post if they believe it contains photos or videos posted without their consent. 

From today, Twitter users can now report indirect threats, offending accounts will be temporarily locked until a phone number or similar is added, and an algorithm will automatically remove abuse before you even see it. 

Twitter already asks users who violate its abuse guidelines to delete content, and can suspend accounts permanently if they don't.

But under the new changes, Twitter's new enforcement option lets the support team temporarily lock abusive accounts for a set period of time, up to 12 hours.

Elsewhere, Twitter has begun testing a product feature to help identify suspected abusive tweets and limit their reach by automatically removing them from a person's notifications.

It has also updated its violent threats policy to include indirect tweets, or the 'threats of violence against others or promoting violence against others.'