Twitter is working on a feature to hide replies to tweets

Twitter is working on a feature that will allow users to hide replies to their tweets. In this way, the user should gain more control over the course of discussions. The function is now being tested on a limited scale.

The new feature won’t make replies to tweets completely invisible, but it will make them harder to see. According to Twitter, this way users can better guard against toxic reactions or discussions that threaten to get completely out of hand, as a result of which the message of the original tweet can be lost.

The existence of the new feature was confirmed via a tweet from Michelle Yasmeen Haq, a senior product manager at the messaging service. “People who start interesting conversations on Twitter are very important to us. To make sure those conversations are as civilized as possible, we’re giving the user some extra control over the conversation,” she wrote after Twitter user Jane Manchun Wong discovered the novelty.

According to the Twitter spokesperson, the new hide function is a useful addition to existing features, such as ignore, block and report. “Those tools are also often used to keep conversations tidy, but they sometimes miss the mark. Blocking and ignoring only change the experience of the person blocking the tweet, and reporting only works for content that violates our terms of use,” said Yasmeen. haq. She emphasizes that the function does not make unwanted answers completely invisible: “The answers remain visible to others via an option in the menu”.