Twitter’s limited reaction: the microblogging site Twitter, however, launched its reaction limitation feature for all users on real Tuesday. In a blog post published Tuesday, Twitter said the feature was part of the company’s efforts to make sure other people have more control over conversations that take a stand on the platform. Suzanne Xie, the company’s director of product management, said users are infrequently more comfortable sharing their reviews when they can control who can respond to their messages. Xie added that the company, while testing the feature, noticed that users had conversations with those settings that were previously unimaginable.
Now, everyone would be able to filter out unwanted comments.
Here’s how users can limit their replies so that the platform can become a safe space for them.
If the user changes the default setting and chooses one of the latter two options, the users who would not be allowed to reply would see a greyed out ‘reply’ option. However, users must note that limiting replies doesn’t mean that people who cannot reply cannot see the tweet either. People who are not given the permission to reply would still be able to view the tweet, share it, like it, retweet it or retweet it with comments.
The Twitter statement said that during the testing and the simultaneous research, the company found that people who used this feature felt more comfortable and protected from spam as well as abuse. They also found that people who comment problematic replies are also not finding any alternative way to send unwanted messages, since there were no increases in unwanted messages in the DM.
Apart from that, people who have faced abuse on the platform and have filed reports before, were thrice more likely to use these settings. It was also found that this feature was an effective way to block out the noise, since 60% of the people who used this feature did not need to use the mute or block feature during the testing period.
As a result, users are able to share their own thoughts without the fear of being abused for it. It was found that tweets which were using these settings and were about topics like Black Lives Matter or COVID-19 were on an average longer. Apart from that, users were also able to use this feature to have conversations about sensitive social or political topics.
Moreover, the company stated that people were aware that the feature limited comments and therefore, people looked at additional commentary on such tweets by visiting the ‘Retweet with Comments’ tab, in order to view more opinions and angles on the topic related to the tweet. Differing views could still be shared by using the ‘Retweet with Comments’ feature, the company said.
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