How to Limit Who Can Reply to Your Tweets

Twitter is rolling out the ability for users to limit who can reply to their tweets.

Step 1: Open Twitter on your phone or desktop.

Step 2: Tap on the globe icon and select who can reply to your tweet.

The options are fairly straightforward.

 

• Everyone -- this is the current default option. For public accounts, it means that everyone will continue to be able to reply. If your Tweets are protected, it means only people who follow you will continue to be able to reply.
• People you follow -- only people who you follow, as well as anyone you mention in the Tweet, will be able to reply.
• Only people you mention -- only people who you mention in the Tweet will be able to reply. That last one can effectively be a “no one can reply” option if you don’t mention anyone in the tweet itself.

Step 3: Once you select the option you want, compose your tweet and tap tweet.

A few things to note:

When your Tweet is live, people will see that you’ve limited who can reply to your Tweet.

Restrictions you place on your Tweets will only apply to the ability for others to reply to your Tweet. Others can still engage with your Tweet by, for example, liking or Retweeting it, or voting on a poll you include in your Tweet.

Once you’ve published a Tweet, you cannot later change the restrictions other than by deleting the Tweet. Replies and Retweets of your Tweet will inherit the restrictions you placed on the root Tweet, but Retweets with Comments will not inherit your restrictions.

If the root Tweet is deleted, replies and Retweets will lose any previous restrictions.

If you deactivate your account, any reply restrictions your Tweets currently have will lift, and if you reactivate your account during the reactivation window, all previous reply restrictions will be reapplied. However, during the window when your reply restrictions were lifted, it’s possible that replies that would have otherwise been restricted could have been added to your conversation.