For months now, Twitter has been testing a new function that is totally focused on improving the level of health that can be enjoyed on the social platform, and for this reason it has already decided to start implementing a new improvement that was initially launched in the United States and Japan and that since last Thursday is available worldwide. This functionality is the power hide replies to your tweets.
In this way, all users of the social network have at their disposal a tool that offers them the possibility of managing the conversations held on the platform in a much more efficient and direct way.
From the platform itself they insist that their main motivation for the implementation of this functionality to allow hiding responses to tweets is that each person can enjoy a control of own conversations. For the social network this is necessary since all users should be able to always feel comfortable on the platform while having conversations with other people. However, today users could enter a conversation and change the topic or deviate from the issue that a user had raised on the platform and about which their audience is actually interested.
As a solution to this problem, the platform has wanted to implement the possibility of hide answers. In this way, any Twitter user can choose whether to hide the responses to their tweets, but if desired, anyone can see the hidden responses by clicking on the gray icon that will appear in the hidden tweets and can also interact with the messages. .
For this reason, it must be clear that the answers are not eliminated with this method, but the only thing that happens is that they remain hidden, so continue being accessible to everyone, although they will have to press a button to see them.
In this way, the platform has created this function that allows users to have greater control over conversations without affecting freedom of expression for the rest of the community, who always have at their disposal the possibility of reading the entirety of the conversation, although it will not be available at first glance and you will have to press a button.
Twitter itself has explained that during the testing period in which the tool has been until its final launch, users tend to hide the answer when they are irrelevant, are annoying or have nothing to do with the topic of the conversation.
However, there are users who have indicated that they do not want to use this new functionality for fear of retaliation, although Twitter indicates that they are working on new ways to manage this tool and, in future updates, a new parameter related to concealment will appear. of the responses, so that the level of privacy of users can be increased on those occasions that they consider it so.
How to hide replies to 'tweets'
The authors of the tweets have the option of being able to hide the responses to their Tweets, although as we have already said, each user continues to have the possibility of accessing the hidden responses through the hidden responses icon that appears in the original publication when there are responses. hidden. Also, the author of the tweet can hide a reply at any time if he wishes. The author of the reply will not receive any notification that his reply has been concealed by the author of the post.
For hide a reply in a tweet you must follow the following steps:
- First you must go to the answer that you want to hide in the desired tweet and then click on the down arrow icon.
- Later you must click on hide answer and confirm the decision.
- To view the hidden responses, you must press or click on the hidden response icon that will appear in the lower right corner of the original Tweet.
If you have hidden an answer and want stop hiding an answer you must act as follows:
- First, you must click on the hidden answers icon, and then click on the down arrow icon on the answer that you want to stop hiding.
- Then you must click on stop hiding answer.
- At that time it will be hidden and will be seen from the beginning by all users.
Note that there are some cases where hidden answers are not available within the hidden answers page. This occurs when the hidden answers correspond to a protected account. Similarly, if the author deletes a hidden answer, it will not be available in the hidden answers section either.
The hidden answer within the hidden answer page will also not be available if the answer is hidden and the corresponding account is blocked or muted, so the answer cannot be seen or unhided.
In addition, it must be taken into account that there are cases in which the hidden answers have a warning. This will occur when it will be indicated that it is a tweet that is not available, when the response is seen from the start timeline only if the other account responds to that response, which can happen from the hidden response page. It will also take place if no one responds to a hidden answer, as it will not be replaced by a prompt in the start timeline.
This way, you know how to hide replies to tweets, so that you can have greater control over the responses that users can make to your publications, although, as we have already indicated, it is a function that does not delete tweets, since all it does is make the user who wants to see these answers has to click on the hidden answers icon.