Twitter Is Testing New Feature to Let You Limit Replies to Your Tweets 1855c Technology News

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By Abhik Sengupta | Updated: 21 May 2020 11:06 IST

Twitter Is Testing New Feature to Let You Limit Replies to Your Tweets

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The feature will be available just below the tweet compose window

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Twitter in January had announced plans to test this feature
The company has now started testing the feature publicly
Twitter s can choose between three options

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Twitter is testing a new feature that allows s to limit who can reply to their tweets, the social media giant announced on Wednesday. The new feature is essentially a new reply permission setting that will enable s to decide who can respond to their tweets. Currently, when a publishes a tweet on the platform, anyone regardless they are following the or not can respond to the aforementioned tweet.

The new development was announced by Twitter in a video demo published on the platform. In the demo, Twitter revealed that it is adding a new permission setting right below the tweet compose window that will allow s to select who can reply to that tweet - Everyone, People You Follow, and Only People You Mention. This will be very useful to s of the platform when they do want their tweets to seen by the world but don't want unnecessary replies. For completely private conversations, Twitter already offers Direct Message functionality, and for a filtered experience, there are protected tweets.

Testing, testing...

A new way to have a convo with exactly who you want. We're starting with a small % globally, so keep your ???? out to see it in action. pic.twitter.com/pV53mvjAVT
— Twitter (@Twitter) May 20, 2020

As the option names suggest, only those s that the author of the tweet has selected will be able to respond to the tweet. However, other s who aren't "invited" to reply to the tweet, can still view and like the post.

The new feature is currently available to limited s globally as it is still being tested. There is no word on its wider rollout, however if everything goes well, it should not take longer than a few weeks.

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Twitter earlier this year had also suggested the launch of reply permission setting in the future. "We want to help people feel safe participating in the conversation on Twitter by giving them more control over the conversations they start. We'll be experimenting with different options for who can reply to Tweets in early 2020," the company had then said.

Currently, Twitter allows s to make their private to limit replies from other s who aren't following them. Twitter's biggest rival, Facebook offers a similar feature where s can limit a post to who all can see it.

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