Twitter’s soul is brevity, which is made feasible by the platform’s famed character restriction. However, some users have complained that the character limit is a barrier to writing long-form material on the network. While Twitter has attempted to address this issue with continuous threads, it appears that the company will be introducing a better option … Read more
Twitter has published designs for four features that might give users more control over who can see, read, and find their accounts, and it wants public feedback on what it showed. The first of these additions would make it easy for users who have protected accounts to make their tweets publicly available when replying to … Read more
Twitter is considering new ways to access tweets to specified groups of individuals. The business showed two new feature concepts that would allow users to target tweets to specific audiences without switching accounts or changing privacy settings. The first would enable people to identify “trusted friends,” so that certain tweets would be viewable only to … Read more
Twitter is looking at a new technique to prevent the kind of “unwanted attention” that frequently leads to harassment. The company is developing tools that, if released, would allow users to restrict others from discussing them without the use of a block or mute button. The features, described as “early concepts” by Twitter product designer … Read more
