Twitter Inc. is adding another safety control to help curb abuse and harassment on its social network: Users will soon be able to limit the group of people that can reply to their tweets.<\/p>\n
When posting a message, users will also be able to choose who can reply: anyone, just their followers, only people mentioned in the tweet, or no one at all, according to The Verge.<\/p>\n
The feature, announced Wednesday at the CES technology conference in Las Vegas, is an effort to limit harassment and other types of unhealthy interactions between users, a problem Twitter has been working to fix for years.<\/p>\n
In November, Twitter gave users the option to hide specific replies to tweets so that others wouldn\u2019t be able to see them, a related feature for fighting abuse on the service.<\/p>\n
Now it\u2019s taking that a step further with the option to block replies altogether, something it \u201cwill be experimenting with\u201d in early 2020, a company spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has said repeatedly that improving Twitter\u2019s \u201chealth\u201d is the company\u2019s top priority.<\/p>\n
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