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Microblogging and social networking service, Twitter has allocated concepts for four features that could offer users more control over who can see, read and find their accounts, and it wants feedback from the public on what it showed off to enable the development of a new privacy features.
The first of those features would make it easier for those with protected accounts to make their tweets publicly viewable in instances where they want to reply to non-followers.
Twitter people experience designer, Lena Emara wrote in a thread that “If you have a protected account and reply to someone who isn’t following you, you may not know they can’t see your reply.”
Therefore, one idea is to include a prompt that reminds people of that fact, as well as give them the option to easily switch their tweets to public.
A mockup Emara shared shows an interface element that would allow users to switch to a different account directly from Twitter’s main composition window. The new interface would also allow users to see, at a glance, the name, handle and privacy status of your accounts all in one place. This is another potential feature that would help those with multiple accounts.
The two other concepts Emara shared focus more on privacy. One of those details a feature that would periodically touch base with users to see if they’re happy with their current discoverability and conversation settings and make it easy to tweak them as needed without visiting the app’s settings menu.
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