Twitter is engaged on a technique to management who mentions you

Twitter is engaged on a characteristic that permits you to management who can point out you, with the check model discovered by researcher and applications engineer Jane Manchun Wong permitting you to dam mentions utterly. Twitter privateness designer Dominic Camozzi confirmed that the characteristic is within the works in a now-deleted tweet and requested for suggestions on it from the group.

Permitting Twitter customers to restrict who can @ them can be a reasonably elementary change to how the platform works, making it not possible so that you can method a stranger on the platform to greet them or inform them one thing. In fact, it might probably additionally forestall harassment or bullying campaigns and provides marginalized customers one other technique of defending themselves.

The screenshot posted by Wong reveals controls that allow you to make it so anybody can point out you (that is how Twitter at the moment works by default), restrict mentions to solely individuals you comply with, or disable them totally.

This would not be the primary time Twitter has allowed customers to slim down the checklist of people that can work together with them on the platform. In 2020, it launched a characteristic that permits you to limit who can reply to a tweet just for individuals you comply with or individuals you have talked about in tweets, and that is it the ultimate Twitter Circles feature means that you can make it in order that solely a choose group of individuals can see sure tweets.

Replace October 13, 3:47 PM ET: Up to date to replicate that Camozzi deleted the tweet confirming the characteristic was within the works.