Twitter Adding 'Conversation Participants' Option to Limit Replies to Tweets

[CarlJ]

Glad to know they're adding a feature that nobody asked for and taking away free speech, meaning that people could no longer @ a company and criticize them for a bad product or service.

If I understand correctly, this has zero effect on your ability to @ a company, only on your ability to reply to some of their tweets (if they set that particular tweet to one of these new modes).

 

[adyonka]

Will these new features be part of the API and therefore available in third-party clients or will they be limited solely to Twitter’s apps only?

 

[drinkingtea]

Twitter rolling out features to appease the ❄❄❄ community. It’s bad enough website and forums already crack down on this sort of stuff, now Twitter is joining the chorus of protecting those who can’t handle criticisms, other points of view, etc.

God forbid people don’t want randoms writing sexist and racist comments in their Tweets.

You seem like a great person!

 

[clibinarius]

Twitter rolling out features to appease the ❄❄❄ community. It’s bad enough website and forums already crack down on this sort of stuff, now Twitter is joining the chorus of protecting those who can’t handle criticisms, other points of view, etc.

You are the perfect reason this feature exists. Do you think your life would be great if you say something and the average response was criticisms from people who you have no interest in talking to?

It's not about being a snowflake, it's about hanging out and social interactions on your terms. If you don't like it, just set everything to global. Done.

 

[scottishwildcat]

If I tweet something and 1,000 people retweet it, then I edit it to say something malicious, that malicious tweet is on 1,000 people’s timelines.

And every one of those people would see that it had been edited, and be able to read the original version, just like on Facebook etc. Or they would only see the original version, because whatever version was current would be the one was the retweeted. Whichever of those ways Twitter chose to implement it, it's not an issue.
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Glad to know they're adding a feature that nobody asked for and taking away free speech, meaning that people could no longer @ a company and criticize them for a bad product or service.

There is no concept of free speech on private websites, so they can't take away what you didn't have.

Also, there is nothing about this feature that would stop you @-ing a company and criticising them. They could choose not to allow you to reply to specific things they tweeted, but that's all.
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Will these new features be part of the API and therefore available in third-party clients or will they be limited solely to Twitter’s apps only?

I think we all know the answer to that.

 

[Gameboy70]

I've made the same argument before (tweet "retweet if you like puppies", then edit to "retweet if you like Hitler"), but the OP was specifically suggesting a very small time window for editing. This would cut down on mischief somewhat (hard to get 1K retweets in the first minute), but, yeah, still plenty of opportunity for abuse.

Then again, editing within a limited 60 second window would likely lead to people making mistakes in the edit too (followed by "well, we need a 60 second window for editing the edited tweet, rinse/repeat), and, if it's within a minute of posting? Just copy the tweet, delete the original tweet, and re-post an edited copy. Not _that_ many people will have seen the original.

For good-faith corrections, I'd rather just see a preview mode. I don't see what problem is solved by enabling significant redaction of posted tweets, regardless of the time window.

However, one way to split the difference would be to allow appending to posted tweets within the character limit. In other words, the existing content of a 150-character tweet would remain read-only, but the author could add to the tweet for up to 106 more characters.