It’s not yet a fully functional feature, but it’s an intriguing concept
Twitter is seeking feedback on two new potential features that would allow users to have greater control over the tone and quality of their tweet replies. According to Twitter designer Paula Barcante, Filter and Limit would intelligently hide abusive or detrimental answers or ban repeat offenders from commenting at all.
According to the concept images given by Barcante, Twitter would recognise whether or not you had received dangerous replies and encourage you to enable Filter or Limit. Barcante stated that if you had Filter enabled, potentially damaging replies to your Tweet would be hidden, meaning that they will not be seen to you or other people. Accounts with a history of insulting or “repetitive, unwanted tweets” would be prohibited from replying at all if Limit was enabled.
The concept of Twitter is very clear about whether or not you have Filter or Limit turned on. Filtered tweets are still visible to the person who is answering with the text “This reply is only available to you” appended. Twitter would display a warning saying that “Reply limit is on” with a link to learn more for accounts with Limit enabled.
Hypothetically, because the procedure is automated, it is guaranteed to be inaccurate at times. According to Barcante, Twitter is also thinking of allowing users to review tweets that get caught in either feature’s net in case the user disagrees with Twitter’s automated decision and desires to change it.
Filter and Limit, in comparison to Fleets, appear to be more useful capabilities that Twitter has recently experimented with (RIP). It’s simple to see how enabling those settings could help to avoid racial harassment among the platform’s most visible users. Twitter has also looked into various ways to protect users’ experiences, such as allowing users to conceal old tweets or choose who sees a tweet before sending it.
These all sound like fantastic ideas, like other Twitter’s experiments, just need to be accomplished. However, Barcante did not provide a timeframe for when this would occur.
