New Twitter update will let users hide replies to tweets


  • TECH
  • Friday, 19 Apr 2019

?stanbul, Turkey - August 28, 2017: Woman using smart phone on a wooden desk. The smart phone is an iPhone 6 plus displaying Twitter application. iPhone is a touchscreen smartphone developed by Apple Inc.

Twitter will be experimenting with a new feature that will let users hide replies to their tweet. This move, the social media platform claims, will help “people feel safe on Twitter”.

Twitter executives Donald Hicks and David Gasca in joint blog post said that “building a Twitter free of abuse, spam and other things that distract from the public conversation” is the firm’s top priority.

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