Soon Twitter will allow users to control who can mention them in tweets

App researcher and engineer Jane Manchun Wong discovered that Twitter is working on a new feature that will allow users to control who can mention them.

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App researcher and engineer Jane Manchun Wong have discovered that Twitter is working on a new feature that will allow users to block and control who can mention them. According to a report by The Verge, Twitter privacy designer Dominic Camozzi also confirmed the feature is being developed in a now-deleted tweet and requested community feedback.

The screenshot posted by Jane Manchun Wong reveals that users can choose to allow anyone or only people who follow them to mention them on the social media platform. It also has an option to turn off mentions completely. Further, this feature will provide a tool that could help users to prevent harassment or discrimination on Twitter.

The company has also released tools in the past that limit the number of people that can reply to a specific tweet. For the unaware, Twitter released a feature back in 2020 that allows users to limit who can reply to a tweet to people they follow or mention on the tweet. There is a new Twitter Circle feature as well that lets users select who can view the tweet.

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