After developing the option for most of last year, Twitter now offers all users the ability to “not mention” themselves from a Twitter chat, which allows users to disable links from their profile within conversations in which they no longer feel comfortable participating. .
Sometimes you want to see yourself outside.
Take control of your mentions and leave a conversation with Unmentioning, which will now be deployed for everyone on all devices. pic.twitter.com/Be8BlotElX
– Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) July 11, 2022
As you can see in this example, if you don’t mention a chat, you’ll see that:
- Your username is not tagged in the original tweet and replies
- Users will not be able to mention you again within the same response string
- You will no longer receive notifications about exchange updates
Your username will continue to appear, in text form, in the initial tweets you participated in, but you will not be an active part of the exchange once the non-mention is active.
The main goal here is to allow users to avoid those dreaded heaps of Twitter, where your tweet or profile becomes the focus of anger for many, many users, very quickly, which can quickly become overwhelming.
You may feel like you’re losing control and out of context, which you’re probably on Twitter for, and as responses increase, this can increase anxiety about how they perceive you, who sees those responses, what people say about them. you, etc.
So now, you can break away from any engagement and move on, as everyone on Twitter will do in a matter of hours, while it can also come in handy for examples like the one above, where people call you. an idiot for whatever reason and you just don’t have the head space to participate.
In essence, it is the same as the “Remove photo tag” option available in various social applications, but instead for chats, which offers users the ability to distance themselves from any direct association with discussions of Selected tweets, helping them manage their apps. experience.
Although applicable, some may also find it ignores critical interactions and potentially avoids responsibility for your comments. And maybe, in some cases, that will also be true, but the principle here is that users should have the ability to decide if and how to handle it in the app.
Twitter has added a number of security tools like this in recent months, such as tweet audience checks, “Circles” for a more closed tweet discussion, Security Mode, Communities, and more.
Each of these tools offers more ways for users to manage their in-app experience.
And while they also feel a little weird on Twitter, which has always been open talk, the main thing, again, is that they put more power in the hands of users, which could help improve people’s experiences.