Twitter teases the concept that will allow users to make many aliases for one account

Twitter has revealed several concepts that have been developed by the team behind closed doors, which are not part of the application but it can be implemented in the future. Among other things, these concepts will allow users to adjust their tweets only for certain followers, making it possible to limit who sees a tweet that you don’t want to make by everyone. 

Twitter profiles can be set to personal, but every tweet published will be seen by everyone who follows the account. According to the Twitter design account, the company explores a way to change it. The concept idea, which has not entered the Build phase, including things like the ability to list certain followers.

After the list is created, Twitter users will be able to publish tweets that are only seen by people on the list, such as messages intended for real life friends but not a colleague or one client. Or, Twitter also explores the idea of letting users make a lot of aliases.

https://twitter.com/a_dsgnr/status/1410690421106241539?s=20

Ever want to Tweet, but not to everybody?

We're exploring a bunch of ways to control who can see your Tweets. Here are two early ideas (we’re not building these yet).

I’d love your feedback! 🧵⬇️ pic.twitter.com/o1lmAQBlnt

— A Designer (@a_dsgnr) July 1, 2021

Under that concept, users can create different profiles under the same account, choose to make it public or personal or to limit the request. This concept is called aspect, and users can publish various tweets under various aliases, such as work tweets under work aspects and personal tweets under private aspects.

Users will have the option to follow the user’s main account, their aspects, or mixture of both, depending on their interests. Of course, this is just the current concept and it is possible that Twitter will never introduce them as an actual feature. Maybe we will also see different features in the future based on these ideas.