Twitter plans new privacy tools, including hiding old tweets

(Pocket-lint) - Twitter is reportedly moving connected a fewer caller features to assistance users instrumentality much power implicit their privateness connected the service, including a instrumentality to fto you person your Tweets auto-archive themselves aft a acceptable magnitude of time.

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The changes, reported by Bloomberg, are seemingly each successful effect to the consciousness that radical aren't ever successful afloat power of however radical interact with them connected the platform, particularly erstwhile they pull a sizeable pursuing of different users.

The database of imaginable changes is extensive, and immoderate tweaks could beryllium controversial, but astir volition apt beryllium welcomed by large accounts. As good arsenic archived Tweets, you whitethorn besides beryllium capable to edit who follows you, removing radical afloat alternatively than conscionable blocking them.

You whitethorn besides beryllium capable to determine who tin spot what Tweets you've deed the Like fastener on, and beryllium capable to wholly region yourself from conversations that notation your handle, alternatively than relying connected idiosyncratic Tweet authors to region your tag.

For galore of these imaginable changes, determination are already intensive workarounds (such arsenic deleting each your older Tweets manually), and that's seemingly portion of the motivation, arsenic Twitter seeks to assistance radical usage the level arsenic they're already doing, but with little enactment involved.

Of course, successful the lack of authoritative confirmation, we don't cognize that these settings volition decidedly marque it to Twitter, oregon what the timeline astir their deployment mightiness be.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 3 September 2021.