Twitter is rumored to be working on a tool that will allow you choose and moderate when someone you don’t know mentions you in a tweet. This according to twitter is a way of reducing unwanted attention and curbing “harassment”. The company is working on tools that, if launched, would allow users to prevent people from mentioning them without the block or mute button. Twitter product designer Dominic Camozzi defined the feature as “early concepts,” and it will give Twitter users the ability to “unmention oneself” and control who can tag them in future tweets. That’s pretty cool.
Like untagging yourself on Facebook, unmentioning would basically unlink your Twitter handle from a tweet and prevent you from being tagged in future replies, according to mock-ups shared by Camozzi. The feature could also allow you to block specific users from mentioning you in future without the need to totally block their accounts. Another potential iteration would let you block any new mentions for a set number of days.
Like that feature, the ability to “unmention” could help address some of the more toxic behaviors that often lead to large scale harassment on Twitter. For example, in one version previewed by Camozzi, the app would be able to notify you when you start to get “a lot” of mentions. From there, you could hop into your settings and change who can mention you or pause them altogether in order to “quickly address situations that have suddenly escalated.”
This feature will come in handy to prevent a person from having to go through numerous mentions when they are tagged by numerous people to block and mute the unwanted ones. This is a good addition of the already existing feature where you control on who comment on your tweet before you can send it out.
Camozzi didn’t say when, or even if, these features could make their way to users, but that Twitter is looking for feedback on the ideas.
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