In a recent bid to reduce the amount of terribleness on the internet, human rights organisation Amnesty International has launched a project to crack down on abusive tweets directed at women.

The project, dubbed 'Troll Patrol', is comprised of volunteers that will sift through Twitter and locate tweets that could be considered abusive, toxic or derogatory towards women, particularly female journalists or activists.

If enough data is collected, Amnesty wants to use their findings to build an algorithm that can automatically locate and report offensive tweets.

The volunteer application is open to everyone through an online portal, where people can apply to become 'Decoders' for the initiative. Amnesty currently has a reported 557 Decoders already, and plans to recruit over 10,000.

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“The more evidence we have to show Twitter how large this problem is and how it affects women of different identities in particular - ideally that will just all put pressure on the company to meet our cause and our demands for the #ToxicTwitter campaign and to show that this is an issue that they are going to take concrete action on," technology and gender researcher at Amnesty International Azmina Dhordia said, speaking to Business Insider.

The #ToxicTwitter hashtag is in reference to a recent report that documents the results of a 16-month long campaign tracking harassment on the platform.

"Much of the problem that women face when they experience abuse on Twitter is that Twitter’s own policies are not always being consistently and adequately enforced." Dhordia added.