According to a tweet from a security researcher and expert software unpacker, Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter is testing its new moderation feature, that will allow the users to hide unwanted comments on their tweets. The company itself confirmed the news that they are testing a new feature hide replies feature, such that the users will be able to hide replies to their tweets, through that feature.
The new feature will let the users hide comments on their tweets, but the comments won’t be permanently hidden, and other users can also see the comments by simply clicking a button on the tweet, that may say See Replies or so. The feature will also allow the users to unhide the tweets from the history and report any of the ‘bad’ replies on them, any time.
The Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, also had admitted in a statement last year, that the company has been fighting with a lot of negativity in the user conversations, which is leading to abuse, harassment, and the spread of misinformation, which clearly is not the intentions of the company.
“People who start interesting conversations on Twitter are really important to us, and we want to empower them to make the conversations they start as healthy as possible by giving them some control,” Michelle Yasmeen Haq, the senior product manager, said in tweet thread, confirming the news, “We already see people trying to keep their conversations healthy by using block, mute, and report, but these tools don’t always address the issue. Block and mute only change the experience of the blocker, and report only works for the content that violates our policies.”
Although Twitter has already provided its users with the mute, block, and report options, the hide replies option will help them show their disagreement with the replies on their tweet, and signal the audience that the conversation was becoming toxic.
There have been many features that Twitter tested but never implemented. Although the hide replies features seem to be quite useful, it only depends on the company whether it will publish the feature or not.
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