Twitter is testing a feature that lets a tweet's author limit who can reply, giving the options of Everyone, People You Follow, and Only People You Mention
the chance for a nobody to be heard by a somebody, or for a somebody who's full of BS to get called on it in a way that rarely happens anywhere else. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... Paul Blanchard / @paulwrblanchard : Why @twitter is there still no ‘middle ground’ between blocking someone, but stopping them engaging with your account. Like the ‘restrict’ feature on Instagram, which works really well https://techcrunch.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Twitter is testing a new feature that lets you limit who can reply to your tweets. This is very good news for the many users, particularly women and people of color, who can't tweet without triggering a cascade of harassing and condescending “reply guys.” https://blog.twitter.com/... Mike Elgan / @mikeelgan : Just. Let. Us. Delete. Replies. https://twitter.com/... Vijay Shekhar Sharma / @vijayshekhar : This could be one of the most effective ways to stop unwanted harassment & trolling on twitter ! #win https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Say goodbye to the reply guys, and hello to the yes men. I wrote about how Twitter's new test could make it less of a “hellpit”—unless your version of hell involves powerful people spouting nonsense and not being allowed to point out that they're wrong. https://onezero.medium.com/... Sarah Cone / @sarah_cone : I really wonder what the point of this feature is when I can just Quote Tweet my mean reply to @hunterwalk, except now I'm even angrier because I realize he doesn't follow me. Twitter is the best team ever at getting users angry! https://twitter.com/... Matt Kiser / @matt_kiser : One of the best parts of twitter is the ability to reply & connect with people you'd never be able to IRL. This is an unfortunate solution to a different problem tho. If Twitter enforced its community standards, you wouldn't have to limit core/unique interaction https://twitter.com/... Jaida Essence Hall stan / @hausofdupre_ : I mean you can still quote and quotes are now easily accessible so what's the point 😂 https://twitter.com/... Ian Bogost / @ibogost : The remarkable thing about Twitter is that the more features it removes, the better it would be. The ultimate version would be one in which you cannot post or read tweets at all. https://www.theverge.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : The ACLU's comment on Twitter's new conversation features warns politicians not to use it to exclude people... https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Twitter getting lots of hate for this new feature, because everyone likes to hate on Twitter every time it launches new features, but seems like a cool experiment. Will be curious to see how people use it (and am trying to think of use cases for myself). https://blog.twitter.com/... Stefano Zanero / @raistolo : This sounds like a game changer https://twitter.com/... @soulsgloss : it's disappointing and concerning to me how each new twitter feature seems to be specifically aimed at allowing the dangerous groups known to be on this platform to continue to survive and spread abuse and misinformation uninterrupted. https://twitter.com/... Caroline Orr / @rvawonk : Twitter is now allowing users to choose who can reply to their tweets by selecting one of three options: everyone, only people you follow, or only people you mention. This seems like it's mostly a bandaid to avoid dealing with the underlying problems. https://blog.twitter.com/... Maya / @ivorybiossoms : Twitter: we have a fake news problem Twitter: let's solve this by letting accounts prevent people from fact checking them in the replies! https://twitter.com/... @skooks : in order to protect blue checks from getting ratioed, we will tighten the filter bubbles https://twitter.com/... Eylon Levy / @eylonalevy : Just give us an edit button, if only to fix obvious tpyos. https://twitter.com/... Marcus Walker / @walkermarcus : This is bad. One of the great democratising positives of twitter is the ability of people across all levels of influence to interact. https://twitter.com/... Tom Hamilton / @thhamilton : Dunno why they can't have a feature that deletes all the shit replies to my tweets but keeps all my good replies to other people's tweets. https://twitter.com/... James O'Malley / @psythor : Imagine the class war if “blue ticks only” was an option. https://twitter.com/... Rowland Manthorpe / @rowlsmanthorpe : I'll be using it, don't @ me OH YOU CAN'T https://twitter.com/... Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : Twitter excels at creating echo chambers. In this case, literally! It continues to see itself as a broadcast platform for celebrities. And creating product features such as quote tweets that let people gang-up on others. (nothing on Hunter - he's a good follow!) https://twitter.com/... @mrsmcglover : So this will just encourage more quote tweeting aka the thing that causes the worst brigading and abuse on this site? Great idea https://twitter.com/... @scottmelker : Twitter is adding troll repellent. https://blog.twitter.com/... Downtown Josh Brown / @reformedbroker : Now I'll NEVER get a girlfriend! https://twitter.com/... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Are reply guys just gonna become quote tweet guys now? https://blog.twitter.com/... @mims : huh. kind of love these new settings on twitter still doesn't solve the problem of context collapse when someone quote-dunks in bad faith tho (unless I'm misreading this) https://blog.twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : This is - good, and - will accelerate the phenomenon of people taking screenshots and commenting on those, leading to - ML tools that let you track your mentions in screenshots https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
Ok this is a test of a new tweet feature. Only people who I follow can reply. And I want to see how it works. All you other dirty peasants stay on the other side of my velvet rope pls
Starting to test reply controls today. May enable some new use cases like panel discussions or more focused live Q&As. Or just a “don't @me” that actually works. (we'll be watching for the negative impacts too) https://twitter.com/...
The “stop people replying” feature was fun for about 10 seconds. I'm not worried by the boring “look at me being controversial and you can't do anything” tweets. Whatever, they'll stop. But a lot of misleading bullshit is going to get tweeted without being debunked in the replies
A conversation on Twitter can get noisy and hard to follow. For a more meaningful convo experience, we're testing something new. 👇 As you compose a new Tweet, you can open replies to everyone, people you follow, or just people you @ mention. For details: https://blog.twitter.com/…
Wise words by Will about the new “choose whether strangers can reply to your tweet” feature. Possible downside when those enjoying megaphones limit replies only to friends, but I suspect in practice it's only the first few replies that matter anyway. (Ratioed tweets excepted.) ht…
It's unfortunate that Twitter's best idea yet for stopping harassment will also make it harder to dunk on the president. https://onezero.medium.com/...
The one thing that differentiates Twitter & makes it useful Is the ability to speak to And @ Major personalities If you allow them to build walled gardens Twitter will become a set of disconnected islands Blue checks should not be able to hide from the world https://twitter.com/.…
Totally agree with this thread. It means you can't call out the emperor's clothes, and all the examples cited. (Although you know what: would be great if Trump's tweets were no-reply. Then nobody would bother to interact with them, as they shouldn't already.) https://twitter.com/…
Alright a serious question for @jack: what happens when POTUS and other politicians + public figures turn off replies or limit replies to people they follow? Gone would be harassers and trolls, but at the potential cost of curtailing free speech/public discourse. https://twitter.…
The risk here is that Twitter limiting replies also undermines the features that make it special—the chance for a nobody to be heard by a somebody, or for a somebody who's full of BS to get called on it in a way that rarely happens anywhere else. https://onezero.medium.com/... ht…
Why @twitter is there still no ‘middle ground’ between blocking someone, but stopping them engaging with your account. Like the ‘restrict’ feature on Instagram, which works really well https://techcrunch.com/...
Twitter is testing a new feature that lets you limit who can reply to your tweets. This is very good news for the many users, particularly women and people of color, who can't tweet without triggering a cascade of harassing and condescending “reply guys.” https://blog.twitter.com…
Say goodbye to the reply guys, and hello to the yes men. I wrote about how Twitter's new test could make it less of a “hellpit”—unless your version of hell involves powerful people spouting nonsense and not being allowed to point out that they're wrong. https://onezero.medium.com…
I really wonder what the point of this feature is when I can just Quote Tweet my mean reply to @hunterwalk, except now I'm even angrier because I realize he doesn't follow me. Twitter is the best team ever at getting users angry! https://twitter.com/...
One of the best parts of twitter is the ability to reply & connect with people you'd never be able to IRL. This is an unfortunate solution to a different problem tho. If Twitter enforced its community standards, you wouldn't have to limit core/unique interaction https://twitter.c…
The remarkable thing about Twitter is that the more features it removes, the better it would be. The ultimate version would be one in which you cannot post or read tweets at all. https://www.theverge.com/...
Twitter getting lots of hate for this new feature, because everyone likes to hate on Twitter every time it launches new features, but seems like a cool experiment. Will be curious to see how people use it (and am trying to think of use cases for myself). https://blog.twitter.com/…
it's disappointing and concerning to me how each new twitter feature seems to be specifically aimed at allowing the dangerous groups known to be on this platform to continue to survive and spread abuse and misinformation uninterrupted. https://twitter.com/...
Twitter is now allowing users to choose who can reply to their tweets by selecting one of three options: everyone, only people you follow, or only people you mention. This seems like it's mostly a bandaid to avoid dealing with the underlying problems. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Twitter: we have a fake news problem Twitter: let's solve this by letting accounts prevent people from fact checking them in the replies! https://twitter.com/...
This is bad. One of the great democratising positives of twitter is the ability of people across all levels of influence to interact. https://twitter.com/...
Dunno why they can't have a feature that deletes all the shit replies to my tweets but keeps all my good replies to other people's tweets. https://twitter.com/...
Twitter excels at creating echo chambers. In this case, literally! It continues to see itself as a broadcast platform for celebrities. And creating product features such as quote tweets that let people gang-up on others. (nothing on Hunter - he's a good follow!) https://twitter.c…
So this will just encourage more quote tweeting aka the thing that causes the worst brigading and abuse on this site? Great idea https://twitter.com/...
huh. kind of love these new settings on twitter still doesn't solve the problem of context collapse when someone quote-dunks in bad faith tho (unless I'm misreading this) https://blog.twitter.com/...
This is - good, and - will accelerate the phenomenon of people taking screenshots and commenting on those, leading to - ML tools that let you track your mentions in screenshots https://twitter.com/...