Twitter’s useful ‘Hide Replies’ feature now open for developers

Twitter has unlocked “Hide Replies” to enable third-party app developers to integrate this welcome new feature into their own software package.

Hide Replies was unrolled worldwide last November however, as numerous of the social network’s options initially, it absolutely was restricted to Twitter’s own app.

The feature permits users to cover specific replies to their conversations. Whereas these are often unhidden if different users select, it helps to separate out on-line trolls aiming to disrupt conversations.

Some individuals have observed that – once a tweet has been hidden – Twitter presently makes it terribly clear with an oversized pop-up. This pop-up may drive individuals to need to visualize what tweets are hidden quite they’d otherwise.

The pop-up, however, is simply shown the first time. When the initial warning, associate degree icon can show once replies are hidden (which still somewhat brings unwanted attention to them).

Twitter has worked with a variety of choose partners to integrate the new feature in their products beginning nowadays.

• Alphabet-owned company Jigsaw aims to tackle online toxicity. Hidden Replies are integrated with Jigsaw’s Perspective API in order that replies are mechanically hidden if they exceed a toxicity threshold (.94)
• Twitter says that it’s aware people stop collaborating in conversations once replies contain specific keywords. The reshuffle, a platform that connects business applications, developed a script to strain replies containing set keywords.
• Independent developer Dara Oladosu, who designed the Quoted Replies app, has designed an app that hides replies with markers that he has found conducive measure tributary to abusive behavior.

Twitter needs individuals to spend as maximum time on its platform engaging in decent conversations as potential. Helping to filtrate a number of the web trolls the platform has become substitutable with can solely facilitate to attain that goal.

Developers eager to start with hiding Replies should produce a developer account and be part of Twitter Developer Labs. Twitter says the feature is production-ready.