Twitter's Testing a New Option to Restrict Who Can Mention You in the App
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- 18 Oct 2022
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Twitter’s developing yet another audience control option for your tweets, with a new toggle that would enable you to either stop people from mentioning your @handle completely, or limit mentions to only those who you follow in the app.
As you can see in this image, posted by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, the new option, which Twitter’s currently experimenting with, would give you more control over how people can interact with your tweets.
At the top, there’s an ‘Allow Others to Mention you’ toggle, which would stop people from referencing your @handle entirely.
That, presumably, would just deactivate any mention of your handle, much like Twitter’s recently launched ‘Unmention’ option, which lets you leave Twitter chats that you no longer want to be a part of. Read More...
