Twitter has been involved in what appears to be a crusade to make the site a more meaningful position for user conversations. Since last year, it has implemented several functions to achieve this goal. So on Tuesday, the corporate made you have some other feature of this kind all over the world, on all devices.
The feature lets users know who can respond to their tweets. The beta testing phase of this feature began in May this year, when only a limited organization of others had access to the new item.
The activation of the feature is undeniable and can be customized for each tweet.
When a user creates a new tweet, a new balloon icon now appears below, just above the functions to add media files. Clicking on the globe gives other people 3 functions to locate who can respond to the tweet.
The default option allows everyone, whether or not they stick to the user or vice versa, to respond to the tweet. The moment option only allows other people to join the user to respond to the tweet. Finally, a user would possibly give up the ability to allow other, still very express people to respond by tagging other people and activating the settings to allow only other people who are flagged to respond.
To exclude a traditional tweet from a user they can reply from, the reaction button looks gray because it’s disabled.
As mentioned above, Twitter has tried to make its platform a more powerful and meaningful position for users. The strength to restrict the answers also in this end goal.
According to Suzanne Xie, Twitter’s director of product management, “people feel more comfortable talking about what happens when they can decide who can respond.”
In other words, the feature is intended to give users the strength to control who interacts directly with their tweets and who doesn’t. In addition, this creates new types of actions imaginable, such as conducting interviews with others by allowing only other tagged people to respond to a tweet.
A vital explanation of why this is creating a barrier between users and trolls and attackers. Twitter is an intense position, with other people looking to be heard within a very small limit of words. This, along with the same old Twitter site criteria, has turned the position into a potentially poisonous environment for many users. Mixed with its notorious cancellation culture, it is not unusual to see a swarm of users taking forceful action against a single person.
Some have argued that this new feature creates a gap around the ideals and opinions of others, in turn, overwhelming discourse and healthy debate. To address this backlash, Xie mentions that other people may retwite tweets they can’t respond to with comments. It also notes that this feature reduces the potential threat of users being abused, threatened and sent by spam.
Beta research showed that users with this feature were more affected by abusive responses. This also reduced the chances of getting spam responses.
People who had already submitted abuse reports were 3 times more likely to actively use the feature. In addition, users of this feature were 60% less likely to disable or block other users.
On average, the response limitation avoided 3 abusive responses and added abusive retweet with comment. Twitter analysts saw those statistics as a sign.
However, there are obvious difficulties for this function. Users expressed fear at the choice of influential people, basically politicians with less humanitarian values, who obtain greater validation of their perspectives and avoid mandatory reporting through restrictive responses. But, as mentioned above, this can be resolved by retweeting it with a comment.
In addition, there are Twitter features that make up for this. One of those features invites users to read an article link before resteing it.
The scenario, however, is complicated for Twitter. If you move in the right direction, you still have many obstacles to overcome. You’ll need to create a greater sense of security among your users, as it’s constantly criticized for being an insecure platform. Recently, Twitter made headlines about a hacking incident at the company. He was also surprised to use phone numbers for ads from 2013 to 2019, a bad signal given that lately it has about 180 million daily active monetized users.