Technology/Science
FYI: A Twitter Feature that Banishes Spoilers and Trolls from your Feed By Adam Benjamin
According to Twitter's description: "When This Twitter privacy setting is a great way to filter topics out of your timeline. you mute words, you won't get any new
notifications for Tweets that include them or TERRIFIED OF SPOILERS for Sonic the see Tweets with those words in your timeline." Here's how to cleanse your timeline of unwanted Hedgehog 2? Need a break from people talking topics. about COVID-19? Timeline suddenly hijacked by people talking about a news event you have How to Mute Specific Words on Twitter absolutely zero interest in? Twitter's mute feature 1. Tap on your profile picture in the top left on a can solve all those problems -- it's just a bit buried mobile device. Select More if you're using a in the app's menus. computer. Twitter can be a great place to interact with 2. Select Settings and privacy friends, brands, celebrities and almost anyone imaginable. The price of admission? Those people 3. Choose Privacy and safety are probably going to tweet things you don't want 4. Go to Mute and block to hear about. 5. Tap Muted words. If you have any terms Movies and TV show spoilers are a frustrating muted, they'll but mostly harmless risk. Reading tweets that display on the include painful or potentially triggering content and next menu. can have a negative impact on your mental wellbeing is a bigger problem. An unfiltered Twitter 6. On iOS, press the feed leaves you vulnerable to both of these risks Add button in the and many in between. bottom right. On Fortunately, there's a way to protect yourself. Android, press Twitter offers the option to mute terms, the same the + symbol in way you'd mute an account you don't want to hear the bottom right from. (upper right on a 92
January-February 2022
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