Twitter develops a button to deactivate and manage mentions on the platform

Oct. 14 (Portaltic/EP) –

Twitter is developing a new functionality in the ‘Mentions’ section, which will allow users to activate or deactivate them and choose who can tag them in the publications if you have enabled them.

The company announced in April that it had launched ‘Unmentioning’, a feature that was then in testing phase and allowed untagged from the ‘tweets’ and block unwanted mentions.

It was in July when the company introduced this button in all the social network accounts and indicated that it would be available for all devices, that is, Both for mobiles with iOS and Android operating systems.

The reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong has now discovered that Twitter is testing a feature where users will be able to control their mentions, whether or not they can be tagged in posts, and who can tag them, that is, other people who don’t follow them or those that do appear as ‘followers’ of your account.

Twitter is working on letting you control who can mention you on Twitter pic.twitter.com/UemMCGcy70

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) October 13, 2022

Wong has noted this feature in the section on ‘mentions’, where the ‘microblogging’ platform indicates that these labels can be controlled both in ‘tweets’ and in responses to publications.

The ‘Allow others to mention you’ button is integrated in this space, which can be deactivated, since it is activated by default. If the second option is chosen, these users may not be mentioned in any publication nor in answer threads.

In this first section, the social network also indicates that the accounts that users have previously blocked on the platform will not be able to mention them under any circumstances.

Once you have decided whether to activate or deactivate this option, the platform offers two alternatives to choose from, ‘Anyone can mention you’ and ‘You can only be mentioned by people you follow.’

This limitation follows other restrictions imposed by Twitter in recent months, since in August 2020 it introduced the option to choose who can reply to a conversation started on the platform.

Months later, in July 2021, it introduced an option so that users could choose which accounts they allow to respond to their tweets once they have been published.

Accessing these settings is possible by clicking the three-dot options icon, available next to each post, with the option ‘Change who can reply’.