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Published 16:30 IST, January 11th 2020

Adnan Sami has a message for his 'dearest trollers', shares a series of 'Sholay' memes

Social media platform Twitter announced that they will be testing a new feature that will enable users to control who will be able to reply to their tweets.

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Social media platform Twitter on December 8 announced that they will be testing a new feature that will enable users to control who will be able to reply to their tweets and who will not. This feature will definitely help people from cyberbully (trolls). Reacting to the same, singer Adnan Sami who is often hits headlines for getting trolled on the platform, shared the news and wrote a message for the trollers.

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He said, "My Dearest Trollers, Chaar din ki ‘Chaandni’ reh gaee hai...Udaalo jo udaana hai; ukhaad tho kuch nahin sakay magar Twitter keh raha hai aapko- “Ye Haath Mujhay De De!!!” #TheEnd." [sic] Sami in a series of tweets shared memes of the iconic film 'Sholay' describing how the trollers must be reacting after reading the Twitter announcement. One of the memes had the dialogue mouthed by AK Hangal 'Sholay',”Itna sannata kyon hai, bhai? — to this, Sami wrote: "My account post this new rule." [sic].

Seeing all the memes, one of the users commented on Sami's tweet and said: "Means you are afraid of...". And Adnan responded by saying: "One is not afraid of a ‘Machchhar’- They are just ‘tiny’ irritants!"

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Twitter's attempt to curb online abuse

According to reports, the new feature will give four different options to its users to limit the replies in the comment section. The Global setting will allow anyone to comment, Group setting will give access to only those who the user has followed or mentioned in his/her tweets. The Panel set will only be restricted to those mentioned in the particular tweet whereas the statement setting will enable to post tweets and receive no replies in return. Social media companies have been subject to intense criticism in relation to their failure of addressing cyberbullying on their websites such as hate messages targeting women or people belonging to a certain community.

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