Twitter has brought a new feature that allows users to restrict the number of other people who can respond to their tweets, according to a Suzanne Xie, Twitter’s director of product management.
Users will now have 3 features to decide who can respond to their tweets: everyone, only the other people they join, or only the other people they mention. Previously, the only Twitter option for everyone.
Limited reaction tweets will be classified and the reaction icon will be dimmed for others who can’t respond. People who can’t respond will continue to watch, retwe, retwerated with a comment, percentage, and like those tweets.
“Starting today, everyone will use those settings so that unwanted responses don’t interfere with meaningful conversations,” Xie said.
This feature allows others to feel more secure, according to first test reviews in May.
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“In this configuration, some other people feel safer and can lead to more meaningful conversations, while allowing others to see other vision problems,” Xie said.
According to the reviews, others feel more comfortable tweeting and are more protected from spam and abuse, and find that those settings are a new approach to blocking noise. More than 60% of others who used the verification feature did not use Mute or Block mode.
Amid talks about Black Lives Matter and COVID-19, the corporate spokeswoman said she hoped the stage would inspire others to express their opinion more.
The feature is for everyone, adding the president and other officials.
The new feature raises questions about the new feature that violates the First Amendment, according to legal expert Jasmine McNealy.
“Officials want to know that this service is used to cut off anyone’s speech,” said McNealy, who is a professor of information, communication and generation at the University of Florida.
While Twitter users can still retwerated with comments, McNealy said they don’t respond to mute users.
“Users are disconnected from this direct conversation,” McNealy said.
Recently, the social media platform has also created tags for profiles owned by government and state media entities.