Below we teach you how to mute words on Twitter, a really useful tool if you are a regular at this social network but you want to avoid certain topics like spoilers of your favorite series and movies, the increasingly famous ones fake news, haters or toxic users either discussions unpleasant things that lead nowhere, among many other topics to avoid. And Twitter can sometimes be very toxic due to expressions of certain users, lack of respect or the high exposure of controversial topics, crossing topics in your TL that have nothing to do with your tastes and preferences. For this reason, and thanks to our tutorial, you will learn how to silence words in Twitter, in addition to also silencing topics and users, all so that your timeline focuses solely on your interests.
How to mute words, topics and users on Twitter
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And on Twitter a large number of sensitive topics with hardly any filters, so the tool to silence words or topics is very common among those users who do not want to read about specific topics. The same can be applied to users, since it is possible to mute someone so that their interactions do not appear in your TL no need to lock it or stop following; a way to look good without getting rid of a user.
How to silence words
Luckily, Twitter offers several options to mute words and hashtags in which you have no interest, a very valid option to avoid those annoying spoilers that abound so much on Twitter through trends and that can ruin your personal experience. Thus, if you silence words, phrases, usernames, emojis or hashtags, among many other elements that you can silence on Twitter, these elements They won't appear on your timeline, nor in your notifications, responses to messages and more.
Follow the steps below to mute words on the Web page from Twitter:
- Accede to Settings and privacy.
- Now click on Silenced words.
- Choose Add to enter the words you want to silence; you can add the words one by one.
- Finally, choose where you want to stop seeing said word: timeline, notifications, etc. You can also choose the blocking period between 24 hours, a week or a month.
Follow the steps below to mute words on the mobile app from Twitter:
- Accede to Notifications.
- Now click on Setting.
- Go into Silenced either Silenced Words and press Add; As in the previous section, write the words you want to silence.
How to mute users
Beyond muting words, phrases, topics or hashtags, you can also do the same with users and their Twitter accounts, in order to avoid toxic users without having to block them. And there are big differences between muting and blocking someone on Twitter. So yes you block to a user, they will not be able to see your posts or follow you or send you messages; In short, you will completely restrict any interaction with him.
On the other hand, if you silence to someone, they will continue to be part of your followed accounts and will still be able to see your tweets and interactions; but on the other hand, you will not see their messages on Twitter.
Follow the steps below to mute a user from Twitter:
- Access the profile of the user you want to silence.
- Click on the drop-down menu of your profile.
- Select the option Mute.
- Confirm in the question whether you are sure to mute that user.
If you want to stop muting that user, you will just have to follow the same steps and click on Unmute.
