Twitter, still struggling with a reputation for frequent abusive responses to posts, is testing a way to let users specify who gets to reply to their tweets.
Currently any user can reply to any public post on Twitter and those replies are visible below the original posting. While this allows for open conversations, the replies frequently devolve into nonsense or insults.
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