Twitter Enables Users to Limit Replies to Tweets

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Twitter on Wednesday said that it will enable users to limit the replies to their tweets as part of a new conversation settings feature. The company said that the new feature is enabled only to certain users as Twitter is only “testing” the settings. If the user is part of the test, the conversation setting feature will be visible when the user composes a tweet. The feature will enable users to select who can reply to the tweet. Twitter initially teased the feature in January with the company highlighting that it wants to aid users to “feel safe participating in the conversation on Twitter by giving them more control.” The company said that it will start “experimenting with different options” in early 2020.

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Twitter on Wednesday said that the users who are part of the conversation settings test feature will be provided with three options on the accounts that can reply to the user’s tweet. The user can either select everyone or limit the replies to the people that the user follows or further limit it to the people mentioned in the tweet.

“Twitter is where you go to see and talk about what’s happening. But sometimes, unwanted replies make it hard to have meaningful conversations,” Suzanne Xie, director of product at Twitter, said in a blog post.

Tweets that have restrictions on replies will be labelled by Twitter with the reply option said to be disabled to other users. However, users who are limited to participate in the conversation will still be able to view, like or retweet with and without comment.

Twitter said that “only a limited group of people” across the globe have been enabled with the conversation settings feature.

“Being able to participate and understand what’s happening is key for useful public conversation,” Xie said. “So, we’re exploring how we can improve these settings to give people more opportunities to weigh in while still giving people control over the conversations they start.”