Twitter is on the move as it is bringing new features with each passing day. She recently introduced Instagram Stories like the fleet in India that disappears in 24 hours. The social media giant is now giving more control to users. Twitter has rolled out a new update that lets users choose who can reply to their tweets and who can’t. This new setting is now available to every user globally including India.
Notably, users who are restricted from replying to your tweets will still be able to view, retweet, retweet with comments, like and share your tweets. Let’s take a quick look at how you can enable the setting to restrict unwanted users from replying to your tweets. Well, before we get into how the new feature works, just note that this isn’t the first time Twitter has introduced features that give users more power.
How to choose who can reply to your tweet
* Open Twitter on your phone or desktop.
* Tap on the globe icon and choose who can reply to your tweet: Everyone, People you follow or Only people you mention.
* After selecting the option you want, type your tweet and tap tweet.
Note that once you publish the tweet, you won’t be able to change its reply settings.
How to choose who you can respond to
* Within the compose screen, you can see the people in the chat that you will reply to. There you can click on the “Reply” option to display the editing screen, which will consist of a list of people who are part of the conversation.
To add people to a chat, you can simply type the username in your tweet. And to remove people, you can tap the tick icon to deselect participants within the edit screen.
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If you have blocked any accounts, they will be visible to you in the list of recipients with the blocked indicator.
To check how many participants a tweet has, you can simply take a look at the number next to the reply icon that shows how many direct replies the original Tweet received.
