Twitter introduced it examined a brand new characteristic that allowed a consumer to share his or her tweets with a particular variety of folks.
“Twitter Circle” allowed customers to limit tweets to 150 particular folks or much less as a bunch.
“Some Tweets are for everybody & others are only for folks you’ve picked,” Twitter said. “We’re now testing Twitter Circle, which helps you to add as much as 150 individuals who can see your Tweets once you need to share with a smaller crowd. A few of you may create your individual Twitter Circle starting immediately!”
The characteristic expanded upon a consumer’s capacity to limit replies to, retweets of, and likes of a tweet to particular folks the consumer selected.
The platform experimented with varied options that restricted the viewers of tweets for “security” functions.
Final month, Tech Crunch reported that Twitter advocated for consumer “security” with promoted third-party apps on the platform utilizing “Twitter Toolbox.”
“The Twitter Toolbox gives extra options to enhance your expertise on Twitter,” Twitter stated on the time. The platform stated discussions with builders prompted the creation of the software. “[Developers] need customers and we need to present them with the suitable customers on the proper time,” Amir Shevat, the pinnacle of product for Twitter’s developer platform, instructed TechCrunch.
Twitter additionally introduced a “Security Mode” final 12 months that sought to “restrict unwelcome interactions on Twitter.”
A outstanding characteristic known as “downvoting” allowed customers to “downvote” posts they disagreed with. The platform alleged that downvotes weren’t public, however they highlighted “content material folks need to see.”
“Downvotes aren’t public, however they will assist inform us of the content material folks need to see,” Twitter said.
Twitter told MRC Free Speech America after the characteristic was launched that the “experiment” was in its studying stage and did “not influence how replies are ordered.”
“We’re nonetheless within the studying stage of this experiment and need to achieve a greater understanding of how Reply Downvoting might assist us higher floor essentially the most related content material for folks on Twitter sooner or later. At this stage within the experiment down votes are non-public and don’t influence how replies are ordered,” the platform acknowledged.
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