Control your tweets

Sophie Beard posted on 14 July 2021

Twitter is working on providing users with more control over who tweets are shared with and who can mention you in a post, more details below.

Sharing posts

Users will be able share their tweets with selected audiences, as opposed to all of their followers. Twitter is working on providing a sub group of ‘Trusted Friends’, as well as ‘Facets’ for users to categorise tweets when sending them.

A look at how these features would work:

Here's another approach, embracing an obvious truth: we’re different people in different contexts (w/ friends, fam, work, public)

Facets, an early idea, lets you Tweet from distinct personas within 1 acct. Others can follow the whole acct … or just Facets they're interested in. pic.twitter.com/URt5UXeoa1
— A Designer (@a_dsgnr) July 1, 2021

Mentions

In terms of choosing who mentions you in a post, users will be able to select “Unmention yourself from this conversation”. This option removes your @handle and would then be unlinked from further chat, however it would still remain, although unclickable, in the original tweet.

Sometimes you want to talk, and sometimes you just … don't.

Check out these early concepts that could help control unwanted attention on Twitter.

Feedback, especially at this beginning stage, is invited (and wanted)! ? pic.twitter.com/6SpzqiwFlL
— Dominic Camozzi (@_dcrc_) June 14, 2021