Al Sharqiya

London-ALsharqiya September 5: Twitter plans to test new privacy-related features aimed at giving users greater control over lists of followers and who can see tweets and likes, in an effort to make people more comfortable interacting and sharing across the social network. The tools relate to what platform executives call “social privacy,” or how users manage reputation and identity across the service. This includes information such as a person's follower list, the Tweets they like, and whether their accounts are public or private. Among the features being considered are the ability to edit follower lists, and a tool to archive old tweets so that they are no longer visible to others after a specified period of time specified by the user. Hiding past tweets can be a popular feature for people who don't want their tweets to remain online, providing an easier solution than deleting them manually or searching through old tweets to find the ones you don't want to send. “Internal research has found that many users of the platform do not understand the basics of privacy,” said Svetlana Pimkina, a researcher at the company. These users interact less on the social network because they don't know what others can see about them.