{"id":14589,"date":"2019-11-22T11:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=14589"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:54:29","slug":"twitter-adds-hide-reply-function-to-try-to-improve-online-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/11\/22\/twitter-adds-hide-reply-function-to-try-to-improve-online-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Adds &#8216;Hide Reply&#8217; Function To Try To Improve Online Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twitter is letting users become their own moderators. The company announced Thursday that it has rolled out a new feature allowing users to hide replies to their tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Everyone should feel safe and comfortable while talking on Twitter,&#8221; said Suzanne Xie, director of product management at Twitter, said in a blog post. &#8220;To make this happen, we need to change how conversations work on our service.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From now on, users can hide all manner of unwanted tweets \u2014 from the slightly irksome to the totally offensive.<br><br>Those replies aren&#8217;t deleted. People following the thread can unlock the hidden message by clicking on a gray icon that will appear in its place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We already see people trying keep their conversations healthy by using block, mute, and report, but these tools don&#8217;t always address the issue,&#8221; a Twitter employee said earlier this year when the feature was in development. &#8220;Block and mute only change the experience of the blocker, and report only works for the content that violates our policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter said it tested the new feature in Canada and recently expanded to the U.S. and Japan.<br><br>NPR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is letting users become their own moderators. The company announced Thursday that it has rolled out a new feature allowing users to hide replies to their tweets. &#8220;Everyone should feel safe and comfortable while talking on Twitter,&#8221; said Suzanne Xie, director of product management at Twitter, said in a blog post. &#8220;To make this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14591,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589\/revisions\/14591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}