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#41

What I want is an option in the dropdown menu next to tweet to mute the tweeter for 24hours. Sometimes, someone randomly goes on a tirade you don't want to scroll past.

Twitter already provides the option to mute phrases or accounts for the following periods: Forever, 24 hours from now, 7 days from now, 30 days from now

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post #37

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i... don't agree there. twitter is what you make of it. if you follow toxic people, you will get a toxic timeline. me? i follow close friends, a bunch of economists from all sides (mostly from my own country) and some comedians. that's it. my timeline is super clean, i open every once in a while and it's never bad. (side note: i met both of my best friends on twitter. oh and i also met my wife on twitter. it's not a…

That’s how Twitter started for me too, but after a while degenerated to become the toxic mess which finally drove me away. My experience goes to show that people change over time: some, whose influence I formerly found enlightening, reverted to behavior that made me angry and unhappy. Soon others followed suit. Eventually signal was drowned in noise, so I quit.

If you stick to "latest", you pretty much just see chronological ordering of those you follow. Every time you see a toxic tweet, unfolow the person. The world is big enough that you can still have an active and healthy timeline even following these rules. Just like life really.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

#45

Awesome, added it to my twitter. After refreshing, I wish there was a way to remove "Promoted" tweets still.

I use a slightly modified version of this UserScript in TamperMonkey: https://github.com/ZedNaught/blank-promoted-tweets

The change I've made is that I set the display of the promoted tweets to none, rather than setting their opacity to 0: article.setAttribute('style', 'display: none');

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

#47
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i... don't agree there. twitter is what you make of it. if you follow toxic people, you will get a toxic timeline. me? i follow close friends, a bunch of economists from all sides (mostly from my own country) and some comedians. that's it. my timeline is super clean, i open every once in a while and it's never bad. (side note: i met both of my best friends on twitter. oh and i also met my wife on twitter. it's not a…

That’s how Twitter started for me too, but after a while degenerated to become the toxic mess which finally drove me away. My experience goes to show that people change over time: some, whose influence I formerly found enlightening, reverted to behavior that made me angry and unhappy. Soon others followed suit. Eventually signal was drowned in noise, so I quit.

Keep follows/lists at 50 people or less of which no more than 10 are high volume tweeters. If people turn toxic, either mute them for a week or unfollow them if they keep it up.

It happens where a lot of people just have a bad week and need to rant, but it does get annoying. Doing it this way you won't lose out on insightful stuff they usually post and keeping the lists smaller gives you glimpses into area events or interests without drowning you.

EDIT: Also, add 'unroll' to your mute list.

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

#48
post #35

- create a private list - instead of following people, add people to the list Bam. No ads, no suggestions, no "x liked this", reverse chronological order with no missing posts.

Is there any fast way to populate a list with everyone you are already following?

Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

#49
post #35

- create a private list - instead of following people, add people to the list Bam. No ads, no suggestions, no "x liked this", reverse chronological order with no missing posts.

Is there any fast way to populate a list with everyone you are already following?

I wrote an open source script for this a while ago, it's annoying to run due to Twitter API limits https://github.com/KrauseFx/twitter-unfollow
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