Popular social media platform Twitter is currently experimenting with a new feature that helps protect users’ peace of mind. Called ‘unmentioning’, the feature allows you to remove yourself from conversations where you’re mentioned in.
Announced by the company’s Twitter Safety account, the feature is now available for some users on the web version of the platform. The tweet also showed a GIF of the feature in action which is rather straightforward.
How do you say “Don’t @ me,” without saying “Don’t @ me”?
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) April 7, 2022
We’re experimenting with Unmentioning—a way to help you protect your peace and remove yourself from conversations—available on Web for some of you now. pic.twitter.com/rlo6lqp34H
For those that have gotten the feature, a new ‘leave this conversation’ option will appear when you press on the menu of a tweet that you’re mentioned in. Selecting to leave the conversation would then prompt a pop-up menu which explains what happens when you leave a conversation.
Essentially, your username will get untagged from the tweet, future mentions will be stopped and you will also no longer get notifications about that tweet on your account. Looks like a pretty awesome feature if you ask me!
Let’s hope that Twitter would end up keeping the feature after finishing its experiment on it. What do you guys think? Yay or nay?
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