Twitter now allowing users to 'Hide Replies' worldwide

Twitter has been testing its ‘Hide Replies’ feature for quite some time. The company has announced that starting today; all users will be able to hide replies. 

Twitter had started testing the moderation tool feature on its web and mobile platform. The initial test was limited to Canada in July but was extended to Japan within a couple of months.

The company has made some changes in its moderation tool feature. The new feature will allow Twitter users to take further action after hiding a reply like blocking the replier too.

Twitter stated that while testing the feature, it was observed that people used to hide distracting and irrelevant replies. With the new moderation tool, Twitter wants to give more controls to the tweet author to hide responses from the main conversation that are off-topic. 

‘Hide Replies’ will be useful for Twitter users to hide abusive or derogatory tweets from trolls, apart from irrelevant tweets. However, the feature can also be misused when someone tries to correct fake news by commenting a fact check tweet in the conversation.