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Twitter is testing a new fondness that lets users decide who can repossession to their tweets, the visitor climb on Wednesday, and some accounts are once utilizing it in some interesting new ways.

Previously, anybody could repossession to anybody on Twitter (as unfurled as their profile wasn't clandestine or blocked). However now, if you're part of the test, you can decide if you appetite to emit replies from everyone, only people you follow, or only people you tag -- which, if you don't tag anyone, organ that no one can repossession at all. Deciding who can repossession to which tweet on a tweet-by-tweet indicant could recency how some people use the witty media podium in significant ways.

Interviews on Twitter, for example, could be much increasingly streamlined, and NBC's Twitter alibi for Meet the Press has once specious an example of how. Meet the Press announced an interview with NBC News' Andrea Mitchell and only authorized people it tagged in the tweet to repossession -- which, in this case, was only Mitchell. What followed substantially go-go like a unfurled tweetstorm, split betwixt two accounts.

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Part of Meet the Press' Twitter interview with Andrea Mitchell.

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Limiting how users can collaborate with live Twitter interviews does midpoint that emergent conversations won't occur as easily in the replies -- you can theoretically still quote tweet letters metrical if those tweets predestine replies limited, and conversations could be started that way. Still, the limitation organ interviews may not feel quite as organic as they sometimes were before.

On the second side, the fondness does make interviews much easier to follow, which would predestine been hospitable for, say, the messy #KaraJack interview betwixt Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Recode's Kara Swisher inadvertently in February 2019. Dorsey had some fun referencing that mess by not assuasive replies to this tweet:

Kara regale repossession if you anticipate we should do culling interview #

-- jack (@jack) May 20, 2020

Limiting replies could conjointly be used to help prevent the suggest of spoilers for wieldy movies, TV shows, and video games. On Thursday, for example, Noplace Dog posted screenshots of its wieldy PS4 appellation The Aftermost of Us Part II, and locked replies to people it tagged -- which was no one.

The Aftermost of Us Part II, which launches on June 19th, promises to predestine a exorbitantly engaging story, and the tidal is effectual gathered it can on witty media to pension that thrill under wraps until the game launches, hence the move to disable replies. Noplace Dog is conjointly aggravating to stop people from sharing spoilers from major leaks of the game that hit the web in moratory April; Sony and Noplace Dog disabled YouTube comments on the latest trailer, too.

Pick up where we sinistral off on June 19. #TheLastOfUsPartII pic.twitter.com/nFa26GPuw9

-- Noplace Dog (@Naughty_Dog) May 21, 2020

There is the potential that palsy replies could be used increasingly nefariously. If politicians or purchasable president post misinformation and don't emit replies, people wouldn't be corpulent to easily fact-check a tweet in the replies that would climb under the original misinformation, where it could do the surmount help in correcting the record. And interestingly, the ACLU is arguing that purchasable president blocking replies would violate the Indigenous Subpoena -- President Donald Trump has yet to make use of the feature, however it will through-and-through pertain debate if and when he does.

.@ACLU says purchasable president should not limit replies on @twitter pic.twitter.com/byRH5gG29n

-- davidshepardson (@davidshepardson) May 20, 2020

In the bewailing of misinformation, if the original alibi isn't assuasive replies to a tweet, users can still use a quote tweet to comment. It's not the surmount platonic solution -- a quote tweet only appears on your feed, accordingly a fact-check, for example, likely won't be self-evident by anybody who saw the original tweet -- however it's still a way to counterbalance in if you aren't corpulent to instantaneously reply.

Here's an example of how that could look. However, chisel in philosophizing that in this instance, the quoted tweet did emit replies because of the fact that it was tell before Twitter implemented repossession blocking.

Twitter tells us this is not true. No planned fondness for wringer transfer, which is obvious when you anticipate substantially how much of a penury it would be. #

-- Nick Statt (@nickstatt) May 20, 2020

That all said, not assuasive replies can predestine increasingly lighthearted uses. I'll christen I laughed at Dorsey's tweet that I included earlier, and Lil Nas X continuous to prove he is simply a Twitter all-star with this great prank:

FEELING GENEROUS? SENDING EVERYBODY WHO REPLIES TO THIS $100 ??

-- nope (@LilNasX) May 20, 2020

There are coerced to be new idolization that emerge as increasingly Twitter users get plagiarize to repossession blocking, and I'm lured to see how people use the fondness in creative ways. However I'm palpitant to gathering out what fiendish things fast goodies brands will say when they can limit replies only to festivities other.