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This article will show you how to Mute Words on Twitter. Twitter is a great place to talk to friends, brands, famous people, and almost anyone else you can think of. How much it costs to get in? Most likely, those people will talk about things you don’t want to hear.
It could be new episodes of a TV show you’re still trying to catch up on, a new trend on social media, or the news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Sometimes, Twitter can give you too much information, like bad news, fake trends, or things you don’t want to read. You can filter out harmful content or topics you’d rather not see on your timeline by changing how your timeline and alerts work.
Spoilers for movies and TV shows can be annoying, but they are mostly safe. Reading tweets with painful or possibly upsetting content can be bad for your mental health and is a bigger problem. If you don’t screen your Twitter feed, you’re open to both of these risks and many more.
How to Mute Word on Twitter Using iPhone
- You have to first press the word you select to mute for long
- From the pop-up menu, select “Mute.”
- You’ll be taken to a page where you can select the location (your timeline or notifications), the source (anyone or people you don’t follow), and the time frame for which you want to mute the word (a day, a week, a month or forever) and that’s it!
How To Mute Words On Twitter Using Android Phone
You have nothing to worry about, even if you have an Android phone. You can mute certain words in the settings of both the iPhone Twitter app and the Android Twitter client. Even though it’s not as fast as doing it from a tweet, it still works.
- On the top left, click the icon featuring you
- “Settings and privacy” > “Privacy and safety” > “Mute and block” are the next steps to be selected.
- Choose “Muted words.”
- Enter the term you would like to mute by tapping the + sign. Then you can conveniently select the duration for which you wish to mute that word.
How To Mute Words On Twitter From Twitter’s Website
And finally, if you tweet directly from Twitter’s website, you can mute a word. That’s also a very easy way to do it.
- Click “More” > “Settings and privacy” > “Privacy and safety” > “Mute and block” from the menu on the left of your desktop.
- Go to the “Muted words” link in the right column. The + symbol in the top right corner should be clicked.
- Input the phrase or word you wish to mute.
Now, you have the same ways to stop that word from showing up in your feed or messages as you do with Twitter apps for your phone. You can also choose who to mute and how long to do it for.
FAQs
In Twitter’s Settings menu, there is a list of all the words and/or hashtags that a user has blocked. When looking at this list, users can unmute material they’ve already muted, and they can also change how long they want to keep a certain word or hashtag muted (they can choose from “24 hours” to “Forever”).
With the “Mute” tool, you can stop seeing Tweets from a certain account without unfollowing or blocking it. Accounts that are muted won’t know that they are muted, but you can unmute them at any time.