Twitter Says It's Experimenting With 'Unmentioning' (theverge.com) 15
Twitter is experimenting with an "unmentioning" feature that will allow users to remove themselves from conversations. The Verge reports: It's limited to some users and only on the web version for now but looks like a very useful way to clean up your mentions. "We're experimenting with Unmentioning -- a way to help you protect your peace and remove yourself from conversations," the tweet reads. The company posted a short GIF of what the feature will look like to its Twitter Safety account.
The "leave this conversation" option will appear on the menu that pops out of the corner of a tweet on the web version of Twitter. (It includes the "mute" and "embed" options as well.) Clicking the "leave this conversation" option brings up another menu that details what happens when you leave a conversation: your username gets untagged, it stops any future mentions in that conversation, and, perhaps most importantly, it will stop notifications.
The "leave this conversation" option will appear on the menu that pops out of the corner of a tweet on the web version of Twitter. (It includes the "mute" and "embed" options as well.) Clicking the "leave this conversation" option brings up another menu that details what happens when you leave a conversation: your username gets untagged, it stops any future mentions in that conversation, and, perhaps most importantly, it will stop notifications.
Re:it stops any future mentions (Score:4, Informative)
It just untags you, so it probably removes (or de-magics) the @ sign in front of your username that triggers Twitter to automatically link to your profile and include you into the conversation. Considering that this news comes shortly after Elon Musk buying his way onto the board, and that he gets @ed constantly by cryptocurrency scammers, it's pretty easy to assume this is a case of him trying to scratch his own itches. Per one famous anecdote:
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Considering that this news comes shortly after Elon Musk buying his way onto the board, ...
Twitter putting Musk on the Board probably puts more restrictions on him, from an SEC standpoint, than it bestows benefits to him elsewhere.
How do people even use these platforms? (Score:1)
I don't even know how people use things like Twitter. It's just a bunch of random crap spread all over the place. If there is anything worthwhile there, it's a needle in a haystack. The interface just flat sucks.
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Journalists, Pundits, and Bot farms do.
We wont get into who is running most of the bot farms, because a lot of people here loosely affiliate themselves with them.
It appeals to my demiurge nature. (Score:2)
Reddit, by contrast, frustrates my demiurge nature. Too many hall monitors, all competing with each other, have the cumulative effect of enforcing mediocrity.
Also, I go to Twitter looking for interesting people, not stuff.
Unmentionables? (Score:4, Funny)
The people who use this feature, will they be called "unmentionables"?
Re: Unmentionables? (Score:1)
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The Obvious Question (Score:2)
Kind of funny... (Score:1)
It’s actually kind of funny how the option of just letting anybody say anything at all is not proposed as the first, most reasonable option. It just makes us look like a species of apes that hit our intellectual limit when we tried to progress past organizing ourselves into societal groups larger than a family or small tribe. Yeah, sure, some idiot will say something idiotic, but won’t it be seen as idiotic by almost everybody? Do we really need to hand over censorial control of the collectiv
Does in mean Twitter forgets about you? (Score:2)
I mean, is the now invisible tweet no longer going to influence the advertisements and suggestions you are fed?
I prefer unmentionables (Score:2)
to experiment on.