Twitter is rolling out a characteristic to allow you to go away a dialog on Twitter with what the corporate calls “Unmentioning.” The corporate announced this on Twitter saying “we’re experimenting with Unmentioning—a way to help you protect your peace and remove yourself from conversations—available on Web for some of you now.”
What’s unmentioning. Unmentioning is a strategy to take away your self from an ongoing Twitter dialog with out speaking to the folks on that dialog that you simply left. We’re all caught on these threads on Twitter that will not be related to us or may simply be one thing you don’t need to be related to. Twitter is addressing this annoyance with a characteristic to unmention your self.
This characteristic removes the tag of your Twitter deal with from any tweet and sooner or later prevents you from being tagged in any replies or receiving additional notifications from that tweet. This doesn’t cease you from viewing the Twitter thread. It does change your Twitter identify to a grey colour. And no, you can not undo this, so should you go away a Twitter dialog, you can not be part of it once more proper now.
What it appears like. Here’s a screenshot displaying how one can click on on “leave this conversation” on a Twitter thread that mentions you to depart that dialog.
When will I see it. Twitter mentioned this characteristic is at the moment out there for some customers on the internet platform. It ought to roll out slowly to extra customers and on different platforms.
Why we care. On the model aspect, eradicating your model from a dialog which may be perceived as unfavourable, when your model has nothing to do with the dialog may make sense. From a client perspective, typically you simply don’t need to be a part of a dialog, for numerous causes and now you could have that possibility.
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