Twitter is rolling out yet another control option for your tweets, with a new toggle that will let you either block users from mentioning your @handle entirely or limit mentions to only those you follow on the app.
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As you can see in the image below, posted by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, the new option, which Twitter is currently experimenting with, will give you more control over how people can interact with your tweets.
At the top, there is a toggle for 'Allow Others to Mention you', which would prevent users from mentioning your @handle entirely.
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This, obviously, would simply disable any mentions on your handle, much like Twitter's recently launched "Unmention" option, which allows you to leave Twitter conversations you no longer want to participate in.
As you can see in this example, if you choose to leave a conversation via this option, the handle link is then disabled in that thread. People can obviously continue to mention your handle after this, but you will not be notified of this.
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Obviously, if you choose to stop others from mentioning you entirely via this new toggle, that would follow similar logic – you won't be able to stop people from using your @handle in their tweets, but you won't be notified.
Apart from that, there is also a new option that will allow you to limit mentions to only those you follow on the app.
Twitter’s privacy designer, Dominic Camozzi, initially confirmed that the feature was in the works, but as The Verge reports, he later deleted that confirmation. Giving users more granular control over their @handles is in line with Twitter’s other recent privacy features, like limiting replies and the ability to unfollow yourself from threads. The controls will ultimately make the service better for users who inevitably find themselves in the crosshairs of trolls.
Information source: engadget.com
