Unmentionable: Twitter provides potential to 'unmention' oneself from tweet threads

Twitter has added the power to "go away" a dialog to its social media platform.

Twitter customers can now "unmention" themselves from a thread in order that conversations that originally point out them not seem of their mentions. This characteristic comes amongst a variety of further updates to the Twitter platform as the corporate offers with the financial and authorized ramifications of Elon Musk's resolution to withdraw from a deal to buy the corporate.

"Take management of your mentions and go away a dialog with Unmentioning, now rolling out to everybody on all gadgets," Twitter's security group stated in a tweet.

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If customers want to go away a Twitter dialog, they only must click on on a tweet replying to them, open the three-dot menu on the correct, and click on "Depart dialog."

Twitter previewed the characteristic in 2021 and commenced testing the software in April amongst choose customers.

Twitter has continued so as to add further options to its platform. The corporate had its first "co-tweet" posted on July 7, that includes two authors for a single tweet. It additionally started testing a "Notes" characteristic, which can enable customers to put up long-form content material in a single tweet.

Twitter has been on the middle of reports over the weekend after Musk determined to withdraw from his acquisition settlement over allegations that Twitter was underestimating the variety of spambots on its platform. Twitter responded by stating that it supposed to take Musk to court docket.