{"id":326475,"date":"2019-11-06T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=326475"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:34:12","slug":"big-changes-could-be-coming-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/326475-big-changes-could-be-coming-to-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Big changes could be coming to Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dantley Davis, Twitter&#8217;s VP of design and research, has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dantley\/status\/1191593335837712384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tweeted<\/strong><\/a> a list of features that he said he is &#8220;excited to explore&#8221; in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>These features would give users increased agency over who can interact with their tweets and how they can do so.<\/p>\n<p>The changes that Davis is &#8220;looking forward to in 2020&#8221; include the following options for Twitter users:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remove me from this conversation<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t allow RT of this tweet<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t allow people to <span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">@<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">mention<\/span> me without my permission<\/li>\n<li>Remove this <span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">@<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">mention<\/span> from this conversation<\/li>\n<li>Tweet this only to: hashtag, interest, or these friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ability to block your tweets from being retweeted by other users is particularly interesting, as it offers a way of ensuring that a tweet meant only for their followers does not go viral.<\/p>\n<p>This could be used as a &#8220;half-way&#8221; measure between a traditional, open Twitter account, and an invite-only account.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/11\/5\/20950162\/twitter-new-features-disable-retweets-prevent-mentions-permission-safety-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a> that these are simply ideas that Twitter is exploring, meaning that many of these features may never be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The features mentioned are ideas we\u2019re exploring \u2013 explorations and experimentation have always been part of our process. We\u2019ll have more to share should we decide to move forward with any of them,\u201d said a Twitter spokesperson.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/326461-facebook-unknowingly-shared-data-from-private-groups.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook unknowingly shared data from private groups<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming features would give users increased agency over who can interact with their tweets and how they can do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[405,16390,12543],"class_list":["post-326475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-features","tag-twitter-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326491,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326475\/revisions\/326491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}