Twitter will let all users "unmention" themselves from any tweet discussion

A new article on Social Media Today reports that Twitter is now giving all users the capacity to 'unmentioned' themselves from a Twitter chat, which enables users to deactivate their profile links within conversations that they no longer feel comfortable taking part in.



Unmentioning yourself from a conversation will make sure that:

• Your username is untagged from the original tweet and replies
• Users won't be able to mention you again within the same reply chain
• You'll no longer be notified about updates to the exchange

Your username will still appear but in text form, in the initial tweets that you were involved in, but you won't be an active part of the exchange once you unmentioned yourself.

Twitter's main goal here is to enable users to avoid Twitter pile-ons, where your tweet or profile becomes the focus of ire for many, many users, very quickly, which can get overwhelming fast.

Unmentioning will let you detach yourself from any such engagements, and move on from it - like everyone else from Twitter will do within a matter of hours - while it could also come in handy for examples like the one above, where people are calling you an idiot for whatever reason and you just don't have the head space to engage.