Twitter has been rolling out a bunch of interesting new features recently, making significant changes to the micro-blogging platform. The latest edition is a new “unmentioning” ability that is graduating from preview to global availability for all users.
Our first glimpse of the unmentioning feature came in February when leaker Jane Manchun Wong found brought it online. Twitter followed up on that leak in April with confirmation of the tool, calling it unmentioning and saying it offers “a way to help you protect your peace and remove yourself from conversations.”
For people who use Twitter a lot and have multiple threads/conversations running at the same time, unmentioning could be a useful tool. If any conversation becomes too much for whatever reason, you can remove yourself from the thread.
Users go to a conversation, click the three-dot “More” button in the tweet box and select the “Leave this conversation” option. Once you select this option, your Twitter handle will be removed (untagged) from the thread/conversation.
Sometimes you want to see yourself out.
Take control of your mentions and leave a conversation with Unmentioning, now rolling out to everyone on all devices. pic.twitter.com/Be8BlotElX
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) July 11, 2022
This means you will no longer receive update notifications about that conversations. It will also prevent any other person in the thread from mentioning you.
Twitter says unmentioning is now available automatically on the web, while Android and iOS users can get the feature through an update.
Recent Twitter Updates
Twitter recently announced it will give authors the power to review/edit controversial/offensive language from replies. Furthermore, the company is working on introducing long-form articles for users.
Known as Twitter Notes, the feature will bring arguably the biggest change to the platform in years. After all, Twitter is a micro-blogging network famous for its short form posting. In fact, it is what separates the company from any other information platform.
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