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Twitter has released new settings that give users more information about who can respond to their tweets.
This feature can help users reduce harassment on the site, a challenge that women have been complaining about for years. At the same time, the American Civil Liberties Union and others have raised First Amendment fears that the tool could be abused through officials who block speakers in accounts for public conversations. It is also feared that the parameters will create more “filter bubbles”, in which people’s perspectives or political prejudices are reinforced.
Suzanne Xie, Twitter’s head of product management, said in a blog post that users can still comment on a tweet by retwing a tweet with a comment, even if the responses are limited.
“Twitter serves the public conversation, so it’s vital that other people can see other topics of view,” he said.
The new Twitter settings allow everyone to respond to a tweet, only the other people you follow, or just the other people you mention.
Twitter said users told the company that they felt more comfortable tweeting because of the setup and that they were spam messages and abusive comments. The setup avoided an average of 3 potentially abusive responses and added a potentially abusive retweet with a comment. Users who send such abusive comments have not resorted to sending direct messages.
Users who have reported abusive tweets on Twitter are 3 times more likely to use that settings, the company said. During the test, approximately 60% of the other people who used the settings did not cut or block the user. People who controlled the ability to respond to their tweets also wrote longer tweets than those who didn’t use the settings.
The company said other people also used the settings to organize interviews and make announcements. Last year, Twitter ceo Jack Dorsey interviewed Recode co-founder and journalist Kara Swisher on the site of what a journalist described as a “chaotic hell.” It was because there were so many answers that either of us tweeted that it was difficult for the audience to stick to the interview. Limiting the number of other people who can respond to your tweets can prevent unwanted comments from entering an online interview.
Twitter said there were more teams in progress. Over the next few months, Twitter plans to “add an option to invite more people to the verbal exchange after it starts, transparent notifications when you’re invited to sign up for a verbal exchange of those settings and other tactics to see the full discussion.” Twitter has 186 million users who sign in to the site every day and can see ads.