Twitter planning new privacy measures, says report
What you need to know
- Twitter might have some big new privacy measures on the way.
- A report claims the company is planning to test changes that will give you greater control over who can see your follower lists, posts, and likes.
- Twitter recently debuted a new Safety mode on its platform.
A new report claims that Twitter is planning to test new social privacy features to make people more comfortable on its platform.
According to Bloomberg:
The report says the tools are related to a "social privacy" initiative, relating to how users maintain their reputation and identity on the platform, including lists of followers, tweets they like, and more.
It comes as Twitter recently announced a new Safety Mode designed to stop unwanted and abusive replies from ever reaching users. From Wednesday:
The feature is designed not to block people you follow or usually interact with and offers users a list of temporarily blocked accounts for review. A new social privacy mode should hopefully give more users control over their accounts on devices like iPhone 12 and beyond.
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