Twitter is Working on Unmentioning Feature That Allows Users to Remove Themselves From Conversations

It will also help to silence notifications for those users who want to avoid seeing certain conversations altogether. After you remove yourself from the conversation, your username link will be hidden for added safety and security, and people won’t be able to tag you in the same thread again. Twitter said the tool would make for “healthy conversations” for users, while limiting “overwhelming and unwelcome interactions that can interrupt those conversations”.

Speaking of Twitter drama, the Unmentioning feature comes on the heels of Elon Musk (attempting) to terminate his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Unmentioning may be a useful feature if you find yourself caught up in Twitter drama between friends, or if you’re being cyberbullied by a random stranger for who you are or the job you do. Following these steps will do more than save you the endless notifications pings on your phone.

• Twitter is interested in making its platform a more positive and safe place for users.
• Twitter actually previewed the feature last year, sharing an early concept design and expressing its desire to help users “control unwanted attention.”
• That’s according to recent reports following an official tweet on the matter.
• The company also posted a short GIF of what the feature will look like to its Twitter Safety account.
• Within Safety Mode, Twitter analyzes interactions and algorithmically blocks accounts that are sending abuse your way, saving victims from spending hours sorting through hate-filled replies and blocking accounts by hand.
• The platform expanded the test in February and continues to collect feedback on the system it designed to filter online abuse at scale.

Anyone with the test feature can select the three-dot menu next to a reply to pull up a prompt offering to “get you out of this conversation” (deliverance at last!). Then, they’ll need to look for a “leave this conversation” option in the three-dot menu for that tweet. By removing themselves from post mentions on Twitter, via Unmentioning, users no longer are tagged on the post or receive any notifications about it. With the ability to unmention themselves, users may feel more inclined to engage in conversations that they actually want to be a part of. From what Twitter has shared, the unmention feature will let you leave conversations you don't want to be involved in anymore. Simply pick a Tweet you’ve been tagged in where the thread starts, tap on the Actions menu (the three dots on the top right corner of the Tweet) and select Leave this conversation to untag yourself.

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In order to use the feature, Twitter users can pull up any Tweet that they are mentioned in and select the little three dots and select “get you out of this conversation” where a pop-up menu will appear. The company has unveiled an “unmention” feature to all users, which will allow account holders to remove their handles and mentions from conversations they no longer wish to be tagged in. Twitter began testing the new feature on a select few users in April, but now it’s rolling to everyone on the platform — provided they updated the Twitter app on their phone. The company announced Thursday that it was testing a new way for users to remove themselves from conversations they don’t want to be a part of. Twitter is testing out a feature it calls “Unmentioning” for users to remove themselves from mentions. Last year, Twitter trialled some new safety features to enable users to protect themselves on the platform.

Twitter Unmentioning Feature

Taylor covered social media, gaming and culture at TechCrunch. Twitter launches beta test of anti-abuse tool ‘Safety Mode,’ adds prompts to enable it Unmentioning will also turn off notifications, krikya online Bangladesh leaving you blissfully unaware of the hateful or otherwise unwanted stuff people are sending your way. There’s been no word, as of this writing, as to when exactly Twitter will roll out Unmentions more widely. As may be expected from the branding here, Twitter ensured that the feature itself is straightforward.

The feature allows you to make a graceful exit without a lot of fanfare, according to CNET. The company also posted a short GIF of what the feature will look like to its Twitter Safety account. We'll be in your inbox every morning Monday-Saturday with all the day’s top business news, inspiring stories, best advice and exclusive reporting from Entrepreneur. Twitter was up over 4% as of Tuesday afternoon a 24-hour-period following last weekend’s bombshell news about the death of the Musk deal. Many of these are thought to come from bot and spam accounts, which Elon Musk talked about removing in his quest to acquire the company which was terminated late last week.

If this new feature passes the test stage, it could significantly impact Twitter. There is no word yet on when or if this feature will be rolled out to the wider Twitter community. The feature is currently being tested with a small but global population and is available on Twitter's web version only. This could be a massive benefit for people who receive hateful or otherwise unwanted mentions on Twitter.

And, of course, any subsequent responses go back to the mentioned user. Twitter's new unmention feature is a potentially valuable addition to the platform. This could also lead to more thoughtful and respectful conversations on Twitter overall. Users can simply "leave the conversation" if they don't want to be involved anymore.

Within Safety Mode, Twitter analyzes interactions and algorithmically blocks accounts that are sending abuse your way, saving victims from spending hours sorting through hate-filled replies and blocking accounts by hand. The pop-up explains that leaving the conversation will untag you in the replies, though your username will still appear. That’s the menu that typically contains both the mute and “embed” tweet options. Users can check to see if they have the feature by first navigating to a post they’ve been mentioned for. And, more pertinently, they can’t be mentioned in that given conversation anymore either.