Now, you can choose who can reply to your tweets

Since its inception, Twitter has enjoyed a certain level of openness in comparison to other social media platforms.

People can clearly share their thoughts on Twitter and then have open conversations around the same.

But, the thing is, these conversations often turn ugly, drawing trolls that can flood an otherwise innocuous thread with unwanted slurs and abuses.

To tackle this problem and help people keep their conversations meaningful, Twitter is bringing the option to limit tweet replies.

The feature, first spotted earlier this year, lets you give reply permissions to Everyone, People You Follow, or Only People You Mention in a post.

If you choose the latter two, the reply option will be greyed out for everyone outside the chosen category.

While the new setting will limit replies, it will not hide the tweet in question from those not permitted to reply, like what we see on Facebook.

They could still see the whole conversation, like it, retweet it, and see the fact that the original poster of the tweet has allowed reply permissions to a select group of people only.

The option to limit replies is being tested with a limited group of people - a small percentage of Twitter's global user-base - on Android and iOS.

However, there is no surety over the feature's widespread roll-out, as Twitter is still exploring how to give people more opportunities to weigh in conversations while ensuring more control at the same time.