Twitter’s an interesting place most days but there are times when a tweet goes viral or a post elicits strong responses that result in an explosion of comments aka it has “blown up”, which may cause the original poster to rue ever tweeting it in the first place.
The platform’s recognised that it needs to take measures to combat the toxicity that exists on it through a series of new features, one of which is giving users the opportunity to select whether anyone or specific individuals can respond to their tweets. The feature isn’t new, it was rolled out in August, but it’s been updated to allow the original poster to change their preference at a later time.
All users will have access to this update, which can be utilized by clicking on the three-dot menu on a tweet and look for the option before selecting everyone can reply, only people you follow can reply, or only people you mention in your tweet can reply.
This should help combat harassment and negativity by giving users more control over who has ‘access’ to the tweet in terms of interactivity. It’s not clear whether that extends to Quote Tweets too or if that remains open for anyone to use and comment.