{"id":1095,"date":"2020-04-10T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:50:11","slug":"twitter-lets-users-sideline-unwanted-direct-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"Twitter lets users sideline unwanted direct messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/umu3togeutj.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter is adding a filter to cut down on unwanted direct messages\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                Twitter is adding a filter to cut down on unwanted direct messages<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>Twitter on Monday said it is rolling out a filter that will hide away unwanted direct messages, providing a new tool to stymie abuse.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>Twitter users who receive direct messages from people they don&#8217;t follow on the platform will be able to have such missives automatically routed to a secondary folder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unwanted messages aren&#8217;t fun,&#8221; Twitter tweeted in August when it began testing the filter that let users keep them &#8220;out of sight, out of mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The filter is intended to also catch messages with spam or offensive content, tagging them accordingly so users can decide whether they want to open them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We tested, and turns out filters help you cut through the noise to find gems,&#8221; Twitter said Monday in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who knew. So we&#8217;re rolling out this filter to everyone on iOS, Android, and web.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has been under pressure to battle abuse and vitriol on the platform known for letting anyone express themselves to the world in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco-based company earlier this year introduced the option to hide replies to tweets in some countries, an option that promised to help foster more reasonable online conversations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that distracting, irrelevant, and offensive replies can derail the discussions that people want to have,&#8221; Twitter senior product manager Michelle Yasmeen Haq and product designer Brittany Forks said when tweet reply-filter testing was announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe people should have some control over the conversations they start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is adding a filter to cut down on unwanted direct messages Twitter on Monday said it is rolling out a filter that will hide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[364,787,360,165,516],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insider","tag-lets","tag-sideline","tag-twitter","tag-unwanted","tag-users"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}