One of the most annoying, if not the most annoying thing on Twitter is Retweeting a tweet and having dozens of people reply to that Retweet and forgetting to untag you in that conversation, and blowing up your notifications.
You can only mute the conversation, but that is after the fact. However, Twitter is allegedly working on a new feature that lets you “unmention” yourself from conversations.
Dominic Camozzi, a privacy designer at Twitter, showed off some early concepts of how the feature will work.
Sometimes you want to talk, and sometimes you just … don't.
Check out these early concepts that could help control unwanted attention on Twitter.
Feedback, especially at this beginning stage, is invited (and wanted)! 🧵 pic.twitter.com/6SpzqiwFlL
— Dominic Camozzi (@_dcrc_) June 14, 2021
To remove yourself from a conversation, Camozzi says you’ll have to select the unmention option from the three-dot menu on the tweet.
Twitter will now further prompt you to choose to not remove further notifications from an account you don’t follow when they mention you.
Notifications
Going further, if someone you don’t follow @ mentions you, you’ll get a special notification. If you unmention yourself from there, the Tweet author will not be able to mention you again. pic.twitter.com/RTFBEnkPFf
— Dominic Camozzi (@_dcrc_) June 14, 2021
Twitter will also let you pause mentions for one day, three days, or seven days.
Getting a little TOO much attention? I want to make it easier to address that in 3 ways.
1️⃣ Get notified when you’re getting a lot of mentions
2️⃣ Review those Tweets
3️⃣ Change settings to stop the situation from escalating further pic.twitter.com/CL43INsMky— Dominic Camozzi (@_dcrc_) June 14, 2021
Excited about any of the features?
