and Statement.” Global is the current default (and only) setting for public Twitter
accounts.5 The Group setting will allow those who follow the account and those @‐
mentioned6 in a tweet to reply, while the Panel setting allows only users @‐mentioned in
a tweet to reply. The Statement setting does not allow anyone to reply, functionally
severing the “interactive space” of the replies from the speech of the tweet itself. The
dissent is thus incorrect to contend that Twitter itself does not distinguish between
“initial tweets” and “interactive spaces.” On the contrary, it is continuing to make the
bounds of those interactive spaces more sophisticated and an even more integral part of
Twitter.
IV.
The dissent repeatedly misconstrues the scope of the holding in Knight. It
worries that the opinion “will reach far beyond the Oval Office, creating uncertainty
about the use of social media by public officials at every level of government.” Dissent
at 12. These alarms ring hollow. None of these fears have come to fruition since the
publication of the opinion. While the dissent worries that “this decision will have the
This allows any Twitter user except those blocked by the original tweeter’s account to view
and reply to the tweet. “Locked” or “Private” Twitter Accounts are viewable only by followers
of the account, and their tweets cannot be “retweeted” by anyone, even followers.
6 An @‐mention creates a hyperlink in the tweet to the account named.
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