O Canada, Twitter Is Bringing Its Test to You

The social network will experiment with enabling people to hide replies to their tweets

Twitter will begin a test in Canada next week of giving people the option to hide replies to their tweets.

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Other Twitter users will still be able to see replies to those tweets, but they will have to tap a grey icon first.

Senior product manager Michelle Yasmeen Haq and product designer Brittany Forks said in a blog post, “We want to be clear and transparent when someone has made the decision to hide a reply, and we will be looking at how this feature gives more control to authors while not compromising the transparency and openness that is central to what makes Twitter so powerful.”

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