Twitter Mentions have been long used for attracting attention to your or someone else’s profile. It has been recently reported that Twitter Mentions would soon be in your control, which could help people avoid unwanted attention, and limit negative experiences in the app.
What are Twitter Mentions?
Twitter mentions is a Tweet that contains another person’s username anywhere in the body of the Tweet. Twitter collects these messages, as well as all your replies, in your Notifications tab. If you include multiple usernames in your Tweet, all of those people will see your Tweet in their Notifications tab.
What’s new in Twitter mentions?
As mentioned by Twitter, the platform is working on a few different variations for mention controls, starting with this prototype for ‘unmentioning’ yourself from a tweet chain.
As you can see in the picture above, the new process would provide a new “Unmention yourself from this conversation” option in the tweet drop-down menu, so you could extricate yourself from any further engagement with the specific exchange. Your @handle would then be unlinked from the chat, though it would still remain, unclickable, in the original tweet text.
In addition to this, Twitter’s also looking to add a new notification for when you’re mentioned by somebody who you don’t follow.
Under this process, when you expand a tweet mention from your notifications, there’ll be an option on the tweet itself to ‘Unmention yourself’.
As you can see in the picture above, once you choose to unmention yourself in a tweet via this button, that specific Tweet author would not be able to mention you again, unless you updated your settings again. Which could be a more extreme response to a single mention – but then again, if it’s a spammer or someone misusing tweets, it could be a quick and easy way to cut them off entirely, which could be an improvement.
Not just there, there is another improvement in Twitter Mentions – Twitter’s also looking to add new controls for who you allow to mention you, with variable audience limitation selections (‘Everyone’, ‘People you follow’ or ‘Custom’) that you would be able to put in place for 1, 3, or 7 days at a time.
And lastly, Twitter mentions update is also looking to help people avoid the Cancel Culture pile-on, with a new option that would enable you to stop anyone from mentioning you for a day a time.
As you can see in the picture above, this process would provide users with an alert for when their @handle is getting a lot of tweet mentions. Users would then be able to review those mentions, and alter their mention settings to restrict those who might be looking to dunk on them with their witty tweets, with an all-encompassing ‘Pause all mentions’ option at the bottom of screen.
Twitter is still experimenting with all these new features in Twitter mention, but the social media platform says that it would not take quite long and all these updates in Twitter mentions would be available to all users over a due course of time.
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