Twitter is working on a feature that lets you control who can mention you in the newly discovered test version. Twitter privacy designer Dominic Camozzi confirmed in a currently unavailable tweet that the feature is being worked on and has asked the community for feedback on it. So what is this new feature?
With this new feature, Twitter is considering allowing users to limit who can mention them with an “@”. This will be a pretty fundamental change to the way the platform works, meaning that a stranger through the platform cannot be reached to say hello or point something. Of course, this way bullying and harassment campaigns can be prevented and give marginalized users another tool to protect themselves.
This work of Twitter was discovered by Jane Manchun Wong. The screenshot posted by Wong shows controls that allow you to limit anyone from mentioning you or turn it off altogether.
Twitter is working on letting you control who can mention you on Twitter pic.twitter.com/UemMCGcy70
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) October 13, 2022
In fact, this isn’t the first time Twitter has allowed users to narrow down the list of people who can interact with them on the platform. In 2020, Twitter introduced a feature that allows you to limit the people who can reply to a tweet only to the people you follow or the people you mention in the tweet, and thanks to the Twitter Circles feature it recently launched, it made certain tweets only visible to a certain group of people. Now with this new feature, it seems to take this possibility one step further.
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