The platform is said to be experimenting with a new feature to combat cyberbullying.
Twitter wants to end cyberbullying. The platform, which regularly implements new features intended to make life easier for its users, is currently testing a radical tool, allowing leave a hostile, oppressive, or just plain boring conversation. The information has not yet been confirmed by the company, but it comes from writer Jane Manchun Wong on Twitter, who shared a screenshot of a tool dubbed “Leave this conversation”.
Twitter is working on an onboarding screen for “Leave this conversation” pic.twitter.com/cZYeOdo1pJ
—Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 18, 2022
In concrete terms, the feature will not only allow you to leave a conversation by removing mentions of his username, but also to prevent future mentions within the same thread. This will not delete the posts in question, and the username will continue to appear in plain text, with no hyperlink to the profile. However, the tool will prevent unwanted mentions, while notifying your interlocutors that their debate does not really interest you.
Only for premium subscribers?
As usual, Twitter chose not to confirm the rumours, the platform generally preferring to wait for the first phases of large-scale testing to formalize its new features.
However, it now seems that the company now in the hands of Parag Agrawal is working on the subject. This is not surprising: for several years now, the blue bird has made the safety of Internet users its priority, and this largely involves the fight against cyberbullying, which is particularly rampant on the platform. . In the past, Twitter had already deployed similar features, such as the ability to delete one of his followers, or to control responses to his tweets.
In case the option Leave the conversation would be deployed, we can however expect that it will initially be reserved for premium Twitter Blue subscribers. Accessible via a paid subscription for a few months, this status offers several advantages, and in particular the possibility of benefiting from new products in preview. For free accounts, however, do not worry: as with the favorite setting of DMs, the option should subsequently experience widespread deployment.
