Twitter is currently working on a feature that will allow you limit the number of replies on your tweets. The social media giant is allowing four options to limit who can reply your tweets; anyone can reply, only those who a user follows can reply, only those tagged can reply, or setting a tweet to get no replies at all dubbed Global, Group, Panel, and Statement.
The company made the announcement this morning during a CES in Las Vegas where Twitter has been having sessions with media led by Kayvon Beykpour, VP of product at the company.
“The primary motivation is control,” he said today. “We want to build on the theme of authors getting more control and we’ve thought… that there are many analogs of how people have communications in life.”
Of course you are unable to silence people from replying to you in person, but that’s another matter.”
Head of conversation for the platform Suzanne Xie laid out the plan in detail.
“We thought, well ,what if we could actually put more control into the author’s hands before the fact? Give them really a way to control the conversation space, as they’re actually composing a tweet? So there’s a new project that we’re working on,” she said. “The reason we’re doing this is, if we think about what conversation means on Twitter. Right now, public conversation on Twitter is you tweet something everyone in the world will see and everyone can reply, or you can have a very private conversation in a DM. So there’s an entire spectrum of conversations that we don’t see on Twitter yet.”
Other areas discussed in the session includes giving users more options for creating and sharing lists. Twitter Survey will be expanded globally. A new platform, Launch, will be created for marketers to roll out new products and services for advertisers.