November 5, 2019 08:21 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/5/20950162/twitter-new-features-disable-retweets-prevent-mentions-permission-safety-privacy
Twitter may fundamentally change how retweets and mentions work
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Twitter leadership has made it a goal of the last few years to be more transparent about its decision-making and to provide more detailed road maps for when new features and other big changes come to the platform. Just look at CEO Jack Dorsey’s rather epic multi-tweet Facebook takedown when he announced the platform’s political ad ban last week.
In that spirit, Dantley Davis, Twitter’s vice president of design and research, yesterday evening released a list of features he says he’s excited to “explore” in 2020. They include some fundamental changes to how Twitter functions, in particular how the retweet works and how freely users are able to pull others into their conversations with or without their permission.
While Davis says he’s...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/5/20950162/twitter-new-features-disable-retweets-prevent-mentions-permission-safety-privacy
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