Twitter said on Wednesday that it will test new features early this year that will allow users to control who can reply to their tweets, with the aim of reducing abuse and harassment on the platform.
Social media companies are under pressure to tackle harassment on their sites, which often occurs in unwanted responses targeting women and minorities, and since 2018 CEO Jacques Dorosy has promised to pay attention to the "correctness" of public talks on the platform.
"We want to help people feel safe about participating in the conversation on Twitter, by giving them more control over the conversations they start," the San Francisco-based company said in a tweet.
The company launched a feature late last year that allows users to hide some responses to their tweets, as part of its efforts to clean up offensive content and make the social media platform more user-friendly.
According to the company’s presentation at the Consumer Products Expo 2020, users will be able to choose four different response settings: one is “Global” and anyone is allowed to reply, the second is from “Group” and responses are allowed from the people the user follows or knows, and the status The third is a "Panel", in which the responses are restricted to the persons mentioned in a tweet or statement, or not allowing the response at all.