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joke of people experimenting with twitter's new feature where people can limit replies

"Reply To This Tweet" Trolls

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Updated May 26, 2020 at 02:48PM EDT by Adam.

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"Reply To This Tweet" Trolls refers to a series of tweets in which people take advantage of a recent feature Twitter introduced which allows people to limit the people able to reply to a tweet to only the people mentioned in said tweet. This resulted in people taking advantage of the feature with tweets promising something good to all who reply but making it so that nobody could reply to the tweet.

Origin

On May 20th, 2020, Twitter introduced a new feature where one could limit the replies to their own tweets such that only people mentioned in a tweet could reply to it.[1] They first introduced the feature to a small percentage of users.


Twitter @Twitter · May 20 Testing, testing... A new way to have a convo with exactly who you want. We're starting with a small % globally, so keep your •• out to see it in action. Want to have a conversation with just a few people on Twitter? 0:43 6.4M views

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Shortly after the feature was introduced, Twitter users who were able to use it quickly began to make jokes with it by posting inflammatory statements or encouraging users to reply to them with money or gifts and limiting the replies. For example, Lil Nas X posted a tweet reading, "FEELING GENEROUS❤️ SENDING EVERYBODY WHO REPLIES TO THIS $100 ❤️❤️",[3] gaining over 192,000 likes (shown below, left). Twitter[3] itself posted a tweet saying "Reply if there’s a better app," gaining over 85,000 retweets and 148,000 likes (shown below, right). Jokes about the feature were covered by StayHipp[4] and The Verge.[5]


nope @LiINasX FEELING GENEROUS SENDING EVERYBODY WHO REPLIES TO THIS $100 1:48 PM · May 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone 39.6K Retweets 195.9K Likes A conversation between @LilNasX and people they mentioned in this Tweet.

Various Examples


Loading... @mutoni_k If men deserve peace reply to this tweet 1:43 PM · May 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone @ruesdaya reply if u think men deserve to speak 1:32 PM · May 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone Cameron Magruder @ScooterMagruder I will follow the first 100 people who reply to this tweet 5:05 PM · May 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone mina' * @EUPHORIALOVE reply to this tweet with a bts song which is a skip 2:43 PM · May 20, 2020 · Twitter Web App Goal @goal Reply to this tweet if you think Ronaldo is better than Messi... 4:24 AM · May 21, 2020 · Twitter Web App jack @jack · May 20 Kara please reply if you think we should do another interview Kara Swisher @karaswisher · May 20 Hey @jack what about it twitter.com/DontHateBeHate... @ People they mentioned can reply 27 178 2.9K >

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External References

[1] Twitter – Testing, testing…new conversation settings

[2] Twitter – @twitter

[3] Twitter – @lilnasx

[4] StayHipp – TWITTER’S NEW REPLY FEATURE LEADS TO ‘REPLY IF’ & ‘REPLY TO THIS TWEET’ MEMES

[5] The Verge – Twitter’s new reply-limiting feature is already changing how we talk on the platform

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