In 2018, Disney fired Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn over tweets he wrote between 2008 and 2012. While the corporate , he’s simply one among many individuals for whom an outdated social media put up got here again to hang-out him. In latest years, some Twitter customers have turned to instruments like to keep away from one thing related occurring to them. Twitter might quickly additionally supply its personal resolution to the issue.

Sharing a part of its product roadmap with , the corporate stated it plans to finally take a look at a function that may permit individuals to mechanically archive their tweets after a predetermined period of time. The device is at the moment within the idea part and doesn’t have a launch date, however Twitter stated it’s contemplating a variety of time choices, together with 30, 60 and 90 days.

The resolution to present individuals the power to archive their tweets is a part of a broader “social privacy” push Twitter instructed Bloomberg is about giving individuals extra management over their identification on the platform. To that finish, the corporate plans to check a function this month that may permit individuals to take away followers. By the top of the yr, it should additionally trial a device that provides people the choice to take away themselves from public conversations individuals point out them in.

Twitter instructed Bloomberg lots of the above instruments are available response to artistic workarounds its customers have discovered to make up for lacking options. For occasion, individuals have discovered you may take away somebody as a follower by blocking and unblocking them. it shared again in July (seen above), the corporate additionally plans to immediate individuals to evaluate whether or not their accounts are public or personal.

It shall be attention-grabbing to see if Twitter decides to solely give some customers the choice to archive their tweets. After all, the platform acts as a form of public file, giving individuals a solution to preserve politicians accountable for issues they stated up to now.