Social media has brought so many of us together and has exposed each and every one to a plethora of information. This is a great aspect of technology. But sometimes, it is just better to live inside your safe bubble. This comes in most handy in case of spoilers or trolls. On Twitter when everyone is talking about a newly released movie it is tough to avoid spoilers! This is when Twitter’s mute feature comes in handy.

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How To Mute Words on Twitter, follow the steps below:

  • Step 1: Click on More from the side navigation menu. Then, click on Settings and Privacy.
  • Step 2: Click the privacy and safety tab, then click Mute and block.
  • Step 3: Click Muted words.
  • Step 4: Click the plus icon.
  • Step 5: Enter the word or hashtag you would like to mute. Entries can only be added one at a time.
  • Step 6: If you wish to mute the word or phrase from your timeline, select home timeline.
  • Step 7: Select Notifications if you wish to mute the word or phrase from your notification.
  • Step 8: Specify from whom you wish to mute words.
  • Step 9: Under Mute timing choose the corresponding time.
  • Step 10: Click on save.

How To Mute Words on Twitter

An overview:

  1. Muting is not cased sensitive. For instance, if you mute “BAGS”, ”bags” will also be added to your muted list.
  2. You can include punctuation within a word or phrase when you are muting. Punctuation at the end of a phrase or a word is not necessary though.
  3. To mute Tweet notifications, Tweet replies or Tweets in the Home timeline, or tweets that mention a particular account, you must include the @ sign before the name. Doing this will mute Tweets notifications that mention that account, but it will surely not mute itself.
  4. If you mute a word, its hashtag is also automatically muted. For example, if you mute ”rabbit” then ”#rabbit” will also be muted.
  5. Words, usernames, phrases, hashtags, emojis up to the max character count can be muted.
  6. Muting is possible in all languages across Twitter.
  7. You can view a list of your muted words and unmute them again in your settings.
  8. Muting by default is set to the period of Forever. Instructions on how to adjust the mute period are listed below for supported devices.
  9. Suggestion delivered to you by email or by Twitter will not suggest content that includes your muted words or other hashtags.

Muting Words or Phrases On an iPhone:

  • Long press the word which you want to mute.
  • Choose ‘Mute’ from the pop-up menu.
  • You will be sent a page from where you can choose from where you would like to mute the word (your timeline or notifications), from whom (anyone or people you don’t follow), and the period.

Muting Words Or Phrases On an Android phone: 

  • Select the icon from upper left corner.
  • Select Settings and privacy then go to privacy and safety and choose  mute and block
  • Tap on Muted words
  • Click on the plus sign and enter the word you muted. Choose your duration.
  • If you no longer want to mute the word or if you want to extend the mute timing then return to muted words screen, click on the word in question and choose the corresponding option to delete the word or change mute time.
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How To Mute Words on Twitter

Editing or unmuting words and hashtags on your Twitter feed:

If you want to change something about your muted words list, here is how you can do it.

For a mobile device:

  1. Go to your Notification tab and select the gear icon.
  2. Select Muted, then Muted Words.
  3. Select the word or hashtag you would like to unmute or edit.
  4. If you wish to edit a word then change the Mute form and Mute timing selections and click on the Save option.
  5. If you want to unmute any muted word, select Delete word and then choose confirm.

For a browser on a computer:

  1. Select More from the side navigation menu, then select Settings and Privacy.
  2. Go to the Privacy safety tab, then elect Mute and Block.
  3. Then head towards muted words.
  4. You want to edit a word, choose the word or hashtag you would like to edit. Change the Mute. Select Save.
  5. If you want to unmute the word again, select the mute icon (read the crossed-off speaker icon). You then will get a small pop-up at the Servicetom of the screen that says you have unmuted the word.

Muting conversations on Twitter:

If you would like to stop receiving message notifications from a conversation or a thread of tweets, you can choose to mute the whole conversation. You will stop getting notified when people reply to and like the tweets in that particular conversation. However, there is one tweet that you can see from the said conversation on your timeline and when you click on the original tweet once again. Follow these steps for muting a conversation, regardless of what device you are using:

  1. Select the conversation or tweet thread you wish to remove.
  2. Select the More icon (three dots in horizontal lines in the top right corner of a tweet).
  3. Select Mute this conversation.
  4. Click on Confirm-to-confirm muting.
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Control what your timeline looks like by muting unwanted words and phrases on Twitter.

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  • Emon

    Key Account Manager bei Adfluencer, Experte für jedes Social Media Network.