Twitter Tests Letting You 'Unmention' Yourself in Tweet Threads

pcmag.com:

Twitter is experimenting with a new safety feature that’ll let you block other users from “@ mentioning” your Twitter handle in a tweet thread. 

The “unmentioning” function is rolling out to a small number of users on the web-based version of Twitter. The social media platform described it as “a way to help you protect your peace and remove yourself from conversations.” 

The experimental feature is accessible via the three-dot menu on the tweet in which your account is mentioned. A drop-down menu will then show an option to “Leave this conversation."

If you opt to leave the conversation, a pop-up message will appear explaining that your username will stay, “but it’ll be untagged from the original tweet and all replies.” It also means your specific Twitter handle can’t be mentioned again in the conversation, although users can still continue on with the tweet thread. 

Twitter demonstrated an example of how this untagging works with a GIF, which shows the @ user handle in the conversation turning from blue to a normal black and white font. 

“You won’t receive further notifications, but can still see the conversation,” the pop-up message adds. However, a support page notes users currently cannot undo a conversation they've left.

The function promises to be useful in the event random strangers are harassing you by constantly @ mentioning your account in their tweets. Currently, you can only “mute” a conversation or certain keywords, “mute” a specific user, block the user, or calibrate your notifications to help tune out the noise. 

In 2020, Twitter introduced a similar function called “conversational setting” that lets you block haters from replying to your own tweets. Now when you tweet, you can make it so that everyone