how to use this?
On the web: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords
Also available in the app in settings. You need to add each word one at a time.
List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
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#72blocking political words works wonders for me too
Yes I considered posting my political term block list but didn't want this threat to devolve into a flame war. I cringe wondering what my timeline would be like without those muted words.
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#73I would love to see this list updated with example screenshots of what each one actually mutes. Either way, I had no idea Twitter muting worked like this, where you could actually mute TYPES of tweets, and not just content IN the tweets. I don't think they go over this in their docs: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m... - I wonder if they will block this or break this if it picks up steam s…
Or even better, for these to be actual settings on Twitter, not some hacky secret hidden keyword that you have to get off of a gist on hackernews.
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#74- 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.
Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a week, it's easy to miss something important.
LOL. I block Twitter at the DNS level. I’ve never missed something important.
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#75I don't use twitter and I don't really know what this is, but it's at the top of the hn. I mean, I obviously know what twitter is and have read tweets, but otherwise this is kind of foreign. Can someone explain what these are used for?
These are used to block various categories of “fake tweets” that tend to appear in your Twitter timeline. They are mostly growth features / edge stories such as “account you follow liked this tweet from an account you don’t follow”.
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#76- 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.
Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a week, it's easy to miss something important.
Sounds like a feature. If it is important you shouldn't rely on twitter to find about it anyway.
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#77I don't use twitter and I don't really know what this is, but it's at the top of the hn. I mean, I obviously know what twitter is and have read tweets, but otherwise this is kind of foreign. Can someone explain what these are used for?
As Twitter grows, they stray further and further from just showing you tweets from people you follow, and start showing all sorts of other crap you didn't ask for in your feed, such as "person X liked this tweet" or "here's a tweet from someone you may like", and so on.
There is no "official" way to disable these annoying entries in your feed, but over time people have found secret "tags" that if you put in your mute list, will achieve what you want.
This here is a list of all those available tags. There's no real description of what "kinds" of tweets each block other than the vague name though.
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#78Earlier 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…
It sounds like the common reply regarding Reddit quality and toxicity as well. Don't visit the front pages, stay in the curated sub-reddits. I think it is good advice but the low-quality and the toxicity of the front/main pages still inevitably ends up bleeding into the smaller channels. And the fault is still on Reddit/Twitter themselves because they aren't/can't ever de-emphasize those main top-level channels, as t…
Toxicity seems to be a code word for "the plebs are saying things that I don't approve of".
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#79Re: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
#80I would love to see this list updated with example screenshots of what each one actually mutes. Either way, I had no idea Twitter muting worked like this, where you could actually mute TYPES of tweets, and not just content IN the tweets. I don't think they go over this in their docs: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-m... - I wonder if they will block this or break this if it picks up steam s…
seems like you have to add them one at a time ?