One of the most annoying things about Twitter is someone mentioning you in a conversation you’re not interested in and blowing up your notifications.
Currently, you can only mute the conversation. However, Twitter is working on a new feature that lets you “unmention” yourself from it. Dominic Camozzi, a privacy designer at Twitter, showed off some early concepts of how the feature might work.
Sometimes you want to talk, and sometimes you just … don’t.
Check out these early concepts that could help control unwanted attention on Twitter.
Feedback, especially at this beginning stage, is invited (and wanted)! ?pic.twitter.com/6SpzqiwFlL
— Dominic Camozzi (@dcrc)June 14, 2021
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Notifications
Going further, if someone you don’t follow @ mentions you, you’ll get a special notification. If you unmention yourself from there, the Tweet author will not be able to mention you again.pic.twitter.com/RTFBEnkPFf
— Dominic Camozzi (@dcrc)June 14, 2021
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Twitter is also thinking about times when people are mass mentioning you— there’s a special notification for that too — and you just want some peace in your life. The company said you’ll be able to pause mentions for one day, three days, or seven days. Bliss.
Getting a little TOO much attention? I want to make it easier to address that in 3 ways.
1️⃣ Get notified when you’re getting a lot of mentions2️⃣ Review those Tweets3️⃣ Change settings to stop the situation from escalating furtherpic.twitter.com/CL43INsMky
— Dominic Camozzi (@dcrc)June 14, 2021
These features can save a lot of users from mass targeting, but they’re currently in a concept stage. For now, Twitter’s just looking for feedback on various methods of implementation.
The company rolled outthe limit repliesfeature last year, but you have to apply that filter before you tweet. But the unmentioned feature is useful when tweets are already out there. I’m looking forward to see if Twitter makes any changes to these concepts when the feature finally rolls out.
Story byIvan Mehta
Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.“Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.”
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