If that is the case, it's reasoning that might have made sense in the first years after Twitter's 2006 launch.

Tweet may have been deletedД«arcante's thread suggests it works this way because the warning could encourage a would-be troll to rethink their response, and perhaps engage more respectfully. Meaning a would-be troll would know beforehand if they're about to tangle with someone who might not see what they're going to say, because a setting is switched on. Strangely, however, the decision to use either feature (as they're currently designed) would be broadcast up front to all readers. Maybe 'Filter' could be powered by an AI brain, but it's hard to imagine how 'Limit' would shut down replies from accounts 'that tend to' behave in a certain way without having a list to draw from. 'Disagreements, debates, and criticism are still allowed.'Д«arcante doesn't say it outright, but her thread suggests that the two settings would depend to some extent on a database of bad Twitter actors. 'Filter and Limit would be all about empowering you to proactively prevent potentially harmful interactions and letting you control the tone of your conversations,' Barcante wrote in the thread. Limit takes this a step further, preventing accounts 'that tend to use harmful language or send repetitive, uninvited' tweets from replying to accounts that have the setting switched on. Filter would watch for harmful or spammed replies and block them from view for everyone other than each problem tweet's author. The two switches are fairly self-explanatory. Newly conceived but not-yet-implemented 'Filter' and 'Limit' controls would offer new setting switches designed to regulate the flow of tweets directed at account-holders. That's what Paula Bercante, a designer for the social media company, teased in a Friday thread soliciting user feedback on some new ideas. But what if - what if - things were different? Twitter isn't exactly great at keeping jerks out of people's replies, as anyone who has ever had a tweet 'do numbers' can surely attest.

Wow they're doing it wrong